From the day he entered the army at Sandhurst life moved into the fast lane taking him from the pinnacle of a successful career to the depths of despair. Money, beautiful women, diamonds, priceless historical documents and a perfect crime, an extraordinary ex-soldier at loose with a deadly weapon in his arsenal. Hunted and finally recruited into MI6 by the Home Secretary in a no option deal the British Government has a lethal recruit in agent Nick Trevelyan. But the path that has led him to this point has been thorny, studded with bizarre adventures. Martial Arts transform the human body into a potentially deadly weapon yet there is another attribute that humans possess which is potentially far more lethal than muscle, sinew and bone. The human psyche is a phenomenal more dangerous than any Karate blow. This has been known for millennium but training the mind to appropriate another human has eluded most that have attempted to harness its power. Nick Trevelyan is the Hypnotist.