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As the judge in a complicated case involving an oil-bunkering gang, Sir Carter Braxton finds himself totally under the security provided by a mysterious figure, Sidi el-Hassam, a wealthy Arab who commands a volunteer group that specializes in preventing crude-oil theft. The isolation under which he now lives causes him to miss his best friend’s funeral in 1993, for reasons that must remain inexplicable to his friends, the Falconer family, who live in the Forest of Dean where they grow restoration oak. Finding himself in London, the widow, Valerie Falconer, an American from Texas, slips into one of Carter’s trials as a spectator, after which, she discovers the conditions under which her old friend has been living for over three years.