Six hapless geniuses travel to the mythical isle of Aphrodite with utopian notions as to how the tortured island might be rescued. A string of felicitous successes is heartening--rescuing the famed sea turtles and mouflon, solving the problem of desertifcation, even harmonizing the factions of Turkish and Green Cypriots, who rarely send a complimentary bottle of wine to their adversaries' tables. Only alert readers will sense that there is a counterplot to dismantle their best designs.