Nick Stone’s upcoming has never looked as bleak. The just person he’s ever liked is inactive. The only individuals who might give him a reason not to join her have changed their backs.

Until a chance encounter with a man he saved ten years ago seems to throw him a lifeline .

But over the bullet- and bomb -scarred roads of Baghdad, second it’s likely that an issue. A simple goal becomes a journey to the heart of the chilling conspiracy; too past due, he realizes that he’s being used as bait – to lure in to the open a man he believes can offer some salvation, but whom the darker forces of the Western world will minimize at nothing at all to destroy . . .

From its violent and shocking opening in the Muslim enclaves of Bosnia, through vivid, lightning-paced action in war-torn Iraq, this unforgettable story proves Andy McNab yet again to be the professional of the modern thriller, a writer towards the top of his game.