His days as an intelligence agent behind him, John Tanner is forced to return, against his better judgement, into what turns out to be a roller coaster ride of nightmare proportions, when a splinter group of the IRA kidnaps a nuclear physicist and threatens to detonate an atomic device in London. In a conflict of loyalties, Tanner falls in love with Colette, the girlfriend of Sean Flanagan, an act that marks him as a target in the sights of the psychotic IRA bomber, who won't stop until he has had his revenge on them both. Tanner's life is constantly on the line, together with that of his partners, in this riveting, fast-moving thriller set against the backdrop of UK terrorism in the 1980s. Can he prevent the ultimate nightmare scenario? Will Colette escape the sadistic terrorist to whom she is allied? A riveting and thought provoking novel.