Just the thoughts of a fifteen year old boy waking up on an African ship with no idea how he got there give me chills, but that is what happens to Jack Sligo in this story. And it is what happened to David Paul Collins...

In An Improbable Spy by David Paul Collins, in November 1979, merchant banker Jack Devlin's world falls apart when the US embassy in Tehran is stormed by radical Muslim terrorists and hostages are taken. He is forced to leave his business and girlfriend, Farideh, and...