London, 1953. An ancient mystery is calling ... <br/>August Winthrop, an Oxford classics scholar and veteran of the Spanish Civil War, is given a mysterious chronicle and tasked with returning it to the Basque family who have safeguarded it for centuries. But his enemies are gathering. A band of occultists is determined to find the chronicle and uncover its mysteries. And someone has convinced MI5 that August is a Soviet agent seeking to sabotage a military pact between the US and Franco's Spain.<br/>Relentlessly pursued through post - war Europe, August is forced to confront ancient beliefs, modern betrayals and the truth of his own past. <br/>The Map is a sophisticated, thrilling story of labyrinths, riddles and centuries - old secrets from the bestselling author of Sphinx.<br/>