When the Head of British Intelligence, supported by a corrupt and weak Home Secretary, seeks to suppress the truth about a missile launched at a commercial airliner on its approach to Manchester Airport, resulting in massive and avoidable carnage, the stage is set for a courtroom battle between the formidable bully, Ronan Cadogan QC, and the beautiful but vulnerable Naomi Nicholas. In the dock is the government hatchet man, Lewis Barford.
For Derek Lennox, the embittered Glaswegian mercenary, hired only to intimidate but eager to kill, the political intrigue offers a final opportunity to strike at the heart of the Establishment from beyond the grave in the crucible of the Old Bailey when he is diagnosted as terminally ill.
In the shadows, lurking and ever-watchful, is the spectre of The Molecule Man, an unidentifiable and unstoppable journalist, thirsting to bring about the downfall of a Government Minister. Just how close to Naomi Nicholas can he get in his quest for the truth without revealing his identity?
