For twenty years the quiet Ulsterman has worked undercover for Britain`s Security Service, helping to contain the Loyalist terror gangs. Then M15 asks one favour too many, an acy of personal betrayal. And when he refuses, he sees his world collapse. During the blossoming hope of peace, he is accused of murdering a key IRA negotiator. And the evidence against him is overwhelming. Only one man believes his innocence. His brother-in-law Chris Lomax, whose life the Ulsterman once saved. An expert tracker and just retired from the SAS, Lomax find himself on the trial of the most adverary of all. A rogue element within the secret state. With crusading defence lawyer Sam Browne, as renowned for her fiery temperament as for her good looks, Lomax takes on the police, govern-ment and legal system in a harrowingn attempt to prove his friends innocence. Yet before justice can run its couse, they will unearth dark secrets and a prophecy that is moving inexorably to horrific reality as a nation is betrayed.
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978-0-7493-2159-8 (9780749321598)
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