This sharp contemporary thriller opens with civil war raging in Libya as the evil regime of Colonel Gaddafi collapses in the Arab Speing of 2011.
Into this maelstrom of confusion and violence arrive a covert team of MI6 officers and their minders, the veteran madmen from the ultra-secret E Sqaudron SAS.
They land by helicopter - infamously straight into the hands of the Libyan rebels in Benghazi and the glare of world-wide press and media attention they did not want. Only ex-Royal Marine and close-protection expert James Royce manages to extradite his intelligence chiefs from the mess to carry on their secret mission in Tripoli. It becomes his task to bodyguard feisty front-line journalist Jo Brampton who doesn't want his protection.
But MI6 has other ideas and another agenda. It becomes a match made in hell that might just help them to survive this real life hell on earth.
As they are drawn into a helter-skelter journey of action and unfolding international intrigue, the journalist stumbles across the greatest story of her lifetime, the real misplace birth of the horror machine and death cult that is to become known as Islamic State.