After his wife is tragically killed in a London terrorist attack, a CIA cryptographer demands his bosses go after the killers. When it becomes clear they won’t act due to conflicting internal priorities, he blackmails the agency into training him and letting him go after them himself.
Sunny talkaholic Pip doesn’t know which is worse; to be entirely invisible or seen but not noticed. She also can’t remember when it started, just that she can’t get rid of the damned thing. Not so much an elephant in the room as one that follows her every move like a crazed stalker whenever she leaves the bloody house. It takes seven-year-old Alice to see what’s so clearly in front of her.
When ex-soldier turned mercenary, John Gold, learns of the murder of his best friend, he sets off on a mission to find out what happened. What he discovers is a sinister conspiracy and he sets about taking down those responsible one by one.
Former British soldier Jonathan Pine navigates the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper, Pine must himself become a criminal.