by Michael Hartland (Author)

Dr Nazim Khan is the secretive mastermind of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme, and the target of British Intelligence officer Sarah Cable, now twenty-six, ambitious and dangerous. Her task is to worm her way into his trust...

The job is distasteful, vital and dangerous. One agent is already dead. Three more await public execution.

But there are greater dangers. In Moscow, Gorbachev, struggling to withdraw from Afghanistan, faces revolt from the Soviet military, still determined to crush the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. An unstable nuclear-armed Pakistan could set half the world ablaze.

Sarah's courage, ingenuity and humanity are about to be tested to breaking point...