The Haze

The Haze

In 2013, while the Muslim Brotherhood consolidates power over Egypt and the rest of the Middle East, a university professor and former CIA spy based in Cairo called "Hector Kane" receives an unlikely call from the Company.

They need him backand back quick.

It's been two and a half years since Hector has heard anything from his former handlers. So why now, he wonders, when all his attempts to contact them have been in vain?

They meet on a felucca, and the offer Hector receives boggles him. He will be reinstated into the CIA, and be promoted to deputy chief of the Cairo station, only if he will agree to this one last mission, for old times' sake:

Go on summer vacationthey tell himto this posh tropical island in the South China Sea. Take your university class with you. And your wife also; she's Asian and could be helpful there.

But once in Asia, things get more mysterious with every passing...