3 AM on the frozen winter’s evening, only hours after the effects of the overall election. A small build skims the Thames shutting in on London’s most distinctive new riverside resort. On board can be a lone assassin, his target – Britain’s most effective new politician. Within a nation threatened by extremist jihadis and torn aside by civil unrest, Vernon Rolt offers just been catapulted into authorities on an intense anti-terror platform.

Rolt’s plans for any zero-tolerance crackdown on ethnic violence has touched a popular nerve. But his transfer to politics has made him some improbable enemies – British ex-servicemen, once his many committed supporters who now wish him dead.

Ex-SAS trooper turned MI5 operative Tom Buckingham is undercover inside Rolt’s company. His mission: to neutralise the rogue assassins for whom he also has become a focus on, and to uncover the deadly intentions of Rolt’s fresh financier, shadowy Crimean oligarch Oleg Umarov. But all too early, Tom gets swept up in a far more damaging plot that may change the political landscape of Europe – for ever…