Summary |
When SAS trooper Tom Buckingham takes down a renegade Afghan soldier, he's made a scapegoat for the incident and drummed out of the regiment. On his return to Britain, disillusioned and embittered, Tom's unique services are quickly snapped up by charismatic entrepreneur Vernon Rolt, a powerful billionaire with political ambitions and very few scruples. With riots on the country's streets, a government in disarray, and a visit from the American President imminent, there has never been a better time to make a play for power. But, as Tom will soon discover, in the affairs of state hidden forces are always at work. He will have to decide where his loyalties lie and who his real friends are if he is to intervene in a spiralling sequence of events that involve terrorism, insurgency and, ultimately, assassination... |