This is Volume IV of ESCAPE, the tetralogy whose main hero, Mark, is an Olympic swimmer on the run from the communist Czechoslovakia. In Volume One, Mark and his friend Peter attempted to cross the border to Austria, in Volume Two, Mark learned his ropes in Italy, then traveled to France and Belgium. After a failed love affair and a strange adventure in Germany in Volume III, Mark finally finds the love of his life and regains not only reputation but much more than riches and wealth - in part in England, partly back on the Continent, he achieves his goals and dreams.