Charles Russell's country calls on him again - and hands him his most urgent and perilous assignment.

Middle Eastern arms smugglers on one side; on the other, fanatical terrorists seeking the guns to stage an uprising in London - and Colonel Charles Russell, late of the Security Executive, charged with keeping them apart. Betrayal, revenge, and ruthless violence shake even the urbane Russell as official Britain desperately races to avert bloody revolution in London's venerable streets.