Australian born Robert Mackay witnesses a shooting in a cafe in Paris, and since the as ilant is ""dark"", he is assumed to be Algerian and the link to a terrorist clique. Coil with the Paris police, and in so doing jeopardizing his new romance, he is instrumental in preventing a threatened cholera attack and isolating its source...F.L.N. fanaticism the pace and pressure for a surface action story with contemporary .