Project Skydancer was the brainchild of the Ministry of Defence. For Aldermaston scientist Peter Joyce, it was the pinnacle of his career. Until his documents from the project turned up one chilly October morning on Parliament Hill, and the Ministry's prime suspect committed suicide.

He was head of an international drug ring, a kidnapper and a ruthless killer. One night British Sea Harriers reduced his Beirut HQ to rubble and his drug empire to ruins. But Abdul Habib still has money, and enough hate to seek revenge.

Twenty years out of the combat zone, hidden from killers, but now fate has thrust Alex Crawford back into the front line. Though he is an aid worker, the secret service minders who have protected him for twenty years have reactivated him: they want information about the man who perpetrated a massacre in a Muslim village in Bosnia.

MI6 agent Sam Packer watches powerlessly as a gunrunner is shot down in front of him on a lonely road in Zambia. As life slips from his grasp the arms smuggler whispers a heart-stopping warning to Sam: a terrorist gang has a horror weapon and means to commit mass murder. But the man dies before naming the gang, its nationality or its cause.

A British minister is a pawn in a deadly game played out in one of the world's most explosive countries - Indonesia. Together with a lone woman TV reporter he penetrates a remote island, where a powder keg of armed local rebellion is threatening to explode under the repressive regime.