A young man, Daniel Woolf, the son of Sir David Woolf, a high-profile wealthy Jewish businessman, is assaulted on the grounds of a university, and Foyle begins to wonder if the attack was racially motivated. Tensions between intelligence agencies are also mounting, in particular with the Foreign Office, whose operatives are running a fictitious organisation, “Defenders of Arab Palestine”, which is bombing transport ships in France in order to reduce Jewish immigration pressure to Palestine. Tensions are also starting to run high in London with a charismatic right-wing leader, Charles Lucas, head of the International Unity Party, agitating anti-immigrant, anti-Slavic, and anti-Semitic sentiments that lead to a riot. Foyle also helps to uncover a bomb threat to the proposed Palestine conference in London, a product of the increasing tensions between competing Arab and Jewish interests in the region.
