Harry Clifton visits his New York publisher and learns that he has been elected president of English PEN. Harry immediately launches a campaign for the release of fellow author Anatoly Babakov, who's imprisoned in Siberia. Babakov's crime? Writing a book about what it was like to work for Stalin. Meanwhile Harry's wife Emma, chairman of Barrington Shipping, is facing the repercussions of an IRA bomb attack on the MV Buckingham's maiden voyage.
