Paul Chavasse Book II. When Chevasse glances from his drawing room window on a cold, grey November evening he is unaware that the strange muffled figure standing opposite knows a great deal about his past. Chevasse, now Chief of the Bureau - a little known section of British Intelligence - had been a leading player not only in the escape of the Dalai Lama in 1959, but also in the rescue two years later from Chinese hands of a scientist whose discoveries were vital to the West. Then the story steps back to 1961...Cover art by Larry Rostant.