Days after his car erupts in a ball of flame, Nick Stone narrowly cheats death a second time when a gunman opens fire on him from the back of a motorcycle. Who knows his movements? Who wants him dead, and why? Stone's only chance of survival is to carry the fight to his attackers - but before that, he must uncover a trail of clues that leads from his own dark and complex past into the heart of a chilling conspiracy that threatens us all...