Umbereen Currim Asif Khan, a recent widow with a seven-year-old daughter and newly appointed ambassador to the United States, finds herself enmeshed in Wahington and international intrigue—and in personal dilemmas. Some Embassy staff resent that she is a woman, while the Washington diplomatic corps treat her as a woman to bed, not to engage in serious discussion, and there is growing evidence of threats to her country from neighbouring nations. She encounters ...
