Nick Stone's future has never looked so bleak. The only person he's ever loved is dead.The only people who might give him a reason not to join her have turned their backs. Until a chance encounter with a man whose life he saved ten years ago...A simple quest in Baghdad takes Stone into the heart of a chilling conspiracy; too late, he realizes that he is being used as bait to lure into the open a man he believes can offer some salvation but whom the darker forces of the West will stop at nothing to destroy...From violent and shocking Bosnia, through lightning-paced action in Iraq, this unforgettable story proves Andy McNab is, yet again, the master of the modern thriller.