Age: 29 Schools Attended: B.A. Yale, 1905, Summa Cum Laude M.D. Ph.D., Yale Medical School Family: Father John, Deceased (doctor in Confederate Army); Mother, Age 54 (Russian gypsy dancer, since remarried, now a Countess) Profession: Doctor (license suspended pending review by AMA) Languages: English, French, German, spoken Russian; reads Latin and Greek

Inquisitive, reclusive, and a ladies' man. Can get himself into trouble in four languages. Over the years Cath has managed to run afoul of the law both in his country of origin and around the world. A brilliant young doctor, he was kicked out of the medical establishment for his leanings towards mysticism and interest in ancient and esoteric forms of medicine.

Barred from his practice in America, Cath has been living peacefully in Paris for several years. That is, until the trail of a long-lost manuscript leads him to Ireland, where he gets caught in the crossfire of a police raid on an IRA safe house. In the wrong place at the wrong time as usual, Cath flees Ireland in a stolen boat, is nearly drowned at sea, and washes up in Calais--only to find himself a fugitive wanted by the police of every country in Europe.

Just when the situation is starting to look really bad, a telegram from Cath's old friend Tyler Whitney offers him a way out: a berth on the Orient Express to Constantinople. The timing couldn't be better. Could it be that his luck is about to change? Or is the trouble just beginning…

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