Former MI5 agent Harry Tate is drawn back into the field when an old
friend goes missing - and discovers the stakes could not be higher.
Harry Tate has one rule: you don't abandon your friends. When he learns
that former colleague Rik Ferris has had a breakdown and disappeared,
allegedly in possession of highly sensitive secrets from MI6's archives,
he agrees to look for him and, if possible, bring him back in. But where
to begin? Rik could be anywhere in the world.
All Harry knows is, if he doesn't find Rik, others will be sent out
instead. And they won't play by the same rules.
What Harry doesn't know is that Rik is being held prisoner and tortured
for information relating to a high-level mole in the British
establishment. If he doesn't tell his captors what he knows, it will
result in a devastating cyber attack designed to bring the UK to its
knees.