Night in Manhattan – the President of the United States is scheduled to have dinner with an old friend but in the building across the street, a man has disabled the security and stands at the window, rifle at the ready.  The assassination doesn’t go according to plan but it’s only the beginning.  Someone is creating a shadowy, subtle network of agents with the intention of creating terror. White House operative Blake Johnson and his opposite number in British Intelligence, Sean Dillon, set out to find the course of the havoc, but behind the first man lies another and behind him another and behind him, another still. And that man is not pleased by interference…