Continuing his reluctant odyssey, the storyteller Jafar al-Sharif must cope with fiendish assassins, a city of apes, the King of the Winds, the Isle of Illusions and a mysterious long-vanished underwater city as he attempts to save the life of his beloved daughter.

This is Book 3 of the Parsina Saga, following SHRINE OF THE DESERT MAGE and THE STORYTELLER AND THE JANN. It is a journey through a world of djinni, flying carpets and high adventure in exotic realms -- with the fate of the world at stake.