A midnight summons from the Egyptian foreign ministry and a hurried journey through the desert puts Jordan firmly between a rock and a hard place. With his visa revoked and an order to leave the country with little more than the clothes on his back Jordan has less than 36 hours to not only clear his name but to actually find out what the heck's going on in the first place! In this strange case of distrust and insomnia it seems that someone has been spreading stories about the proprietor of The Café Tambourine and as usual Rocky Jordan is the last to know.