Mark Issem, ex Para, half Jordanian half English, is on a road to nowhere until a trip to the doctor turns his no hope life upside down. Add to the mix a family tragedy and contact with the Foreign Office and suddenly Mark has every reason to attempt to turn his life around, patch things up with his ex-partner, and think about revenge. In this taught thriller Trevor John Towers builds suspense as A Year to kill ticks away taking Mark from England to Iraq and into the dangerous city that was Baghdad under Saddam Hussein.