12 years ago. Sandanski, Bulgaria: A teenager climbs aboard a dusty minibus believing she has a singing job in Greece. 12 years later. Vienna, Austria: A motorcade is attacked. The US Vice President is taken. $1billion is demanded. Crimes, past & present, are about to collide. Part kidnap-procedural, part political thriller. This novel is part of the GreyAreas Triptych: The Hunting Command / Slipping / Theseus of Ship. Each can be read as a stand alone novel (in different but overlapping genres); together they tell their own story.