Owen McCarthy Ex-British intelligence covert and black ops specialist With McCarthy compromised and discarded following a failed mission, he operates alone now, within the shadows. Hired by an enigmatic middle-eastern client to find her missing brother, McCarthy takes on a seemingly straightforward case. But with the body count rising fast, and finding his own life under threat, he is forced to go on the run. He soon finds himself entangled within a deadly international conspiracy; one which pierces to the very heart of the British establishment. A conspiracy which threatens the United Kingdom itself.