During those fateful weeks before Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, a fragment of radio intercept acquired described Qubth-ut-Allah, a damaging secret weapon that could rain death and destruction for the Allied forces.

Despite Allied scepticism, Major Mike Martin, an SAS man who are able to move as an Arab, is sent into Kuwait to assess Iraqi strength and help the resistance. What he discovers there requires him into the center of Baghdad, where he’s to ‘work’ the Iraqi spy referred to as Jericho, the sleeper who might be prepared to offer vital information for money. It is an extremely dangerous operation, the results of which cause the Allies to hold off their surface assault for four times – while Martin parachutes in to the Iraqi mountains in the many hazardous mission of his lifestyle: to discover and destory Qubth-ut-Allah – the Fist of God.