The Russian oligarchs are the world's new elite. They treat the world as their plaything travelling without borders & living lives of unimaginable luxury without fear or restraint. But when an assassin starts killing off some of the world's richest men an oligarch with friends in high places seeks the protection of MI5. & Spider Shepherd is placed in the firing line. But while Shepherd has to save the life of a man he neither likes nor respects he has to deal with a face from his past. The Taliban sniper who put a bullet in his shoulder turns up alive & well & living in London. & Shepherd is in no mood to forgive or forget.