Haunted by the brutal killing of his UN interpreter wife in Bosnia, ex-SAS man Ed Coltrane is consumed with the need to hunt down her murderers. Drinking too much and spending too much on his search, his life is going into meltdown … Until, just in time, a former colleague tells him one of his wife’s killers is in London as a guest of the British government.

This is only the start of a dangerous journey into the dark heart of modern Europe, where he discovers a secret act of national betrayal that is as shocking as it is unexpected.