About an hour after I met Tony Hobbs, he saved my life. I know that sounds just a little melodramatic, but its the truth. Or, at least, as true as anything a journalist will tell you.Sally Goodchild is a thirty-seven-year-old American who, after nearly two decades as a highly independent journalist, finds herself pregnant and in London- married to an English foreign correspondent, Tony Hobbs, whom she met while they were both on assignment in Cairo. From the outset Sallys relationship with both Tony and London is an uneasy one - especially as she finds her husband and his city to be far more foreign than imagined. But her adjustment problems soon turn to nightmare when she discovers that everything can be taken down and used against you..