In Afghanistan elite operative John Stratton leads a raid on a remote compound leaving no survivors. Days later in London Stratton is contacted by an old friend in military intelligence with a curious message about being hunted by an assassin. When the officer vanishes Stratton is drawn into a desperate race to secure a missing nuclear warhead that has been stolen from the Pakistan military. Against an unknown enemy he begins a heart-stopping search for the bomb that will take him from a Taliban hideout just a few miles outside Bagram Air Base to the crowded streets of Manhattan. A terrifying & authentic vision of the special forces world by an ex-SBS operative this is Duncan Falconer's most gripping thriller to date.