Charlie Higgins was sat at LHR waiting to check-in for his flight to Johannesburg. He'd just returned from Washington DC, where he'd officially been hailed a hero and been decorated by President O Bama. Unofficially he'd been forced to resign from his top secret position and was retiring to South Africa. Someone had other ideas. There was a sadistic serial killer on the loose in Oxfordshire and he'd gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that Charlie remained in the UK. Who was this madman calling himself The Alphabet Killer and what did he want with Charlie?

*REVISED SECOND EDITION* When Charlie Higgins returns home unexpectedly from a secret mission in Afghanistan he finds a strange car in his driveway. Upon entering the house he finds his wife in bed with another man. Not content with killing his wife, he exacts revenge on her lover by framing him for her murder. A few days later Charlie carries out a hit on a Russian mobster. Consequently Charlie finds himself embroiled in a Russian Mafia plot that leads all the way to The White House. What follows is a race across two continents, several attempts on Charlie's life, and while Charlie tries to...