Description:Peter Ashton had thought he was
through with the world of British Intelligence, but when Captain Oakman
runs away, Ashton is put in charge of the case, taking him on a
dangerous adventure through the south of England and exposing him to a
murder in Hong Kong.
Peter Ashton thinks that he has finished with the twilight world of the SIS. But the SIS has not forgotten Ashton.
Captain
Simon Oakham of the Royal Army Pay Corps has gone AWOL, immediately
after a suspicious interview with the security service. The SIS turns to
Ashton to conduct the perfectly routine manhunt.
But Ashton soon
becomes entangled in an investigation that leads him to a Chechnyan hit
team as it careens lethally through the south of England via two dead
Army officers to a long-suppressed murder in Hong Kong.
The key to it
all is a guilt-ridden, embittered woman whose unsuspecting knowledge of
a lethal involvement makes her especially vulnerable.
Ashton's search for her could prove equally lethal.