MEET MAJOR PAUL STANTON, SAS. LONDON 1985 AND THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER IS COMMITTED TO THE ANGLO-IRISH AGREEMENT. BUT IN DUBLIN THE PROVISIONAL WING OF THE IRA WILL DO ANYTHING TO STOP IT. It's Christmastime down in Bandit Country, South Armagh, and treachery and death walk the bleak, bitter countryside. Sean Mullins and his IRA killers have the firepower to start a minor war and the British soldiers in Crossmaglen are the targets. There will be death and destruction on a scale never seen before. There's only one problem...these are Stanton's men. From the killing fields of the North and South of Ireland into the Goth underworld of Berlin's racketeers and terrorists, Stanton seeks revenge with ruthless efficiency. He's not a man to be messed with.