James Bond is on a mission that will become an obsession. It starts the night Flight 229 is torn apart at Washington airport killing 435 passengers. But the victim who matters to Bond is the Principessa Sukie Tempesta: once his lover still his friend. The search for Sukie's killers will turn out to be the most complex & demanding assignment of Bond's career. Across continents & through ever-changing labyrinths of evil he follows the traces of clues into the centre of a fanatical society more deadly than any terrorist army. Its code name is COLD.