Con Lindow, a brilliant young scientist, is waiting for his brother, Eamonn, when a bus turns into the street and explodes. Lindow is arrested as the prime suspect and pitched into a web of intrigue. Caught between the British Security Service, New Scotland Yard"s anti-terrorist squad, and the cold-eyed killers from his brother"s past,
Lindow must find the bomber to prove his own innocence.
But first he has to confront Eamonn"s double life and work out the meaning of a scrap of paper hidden in his flat.
In the company of Mary, a friend of Eamonn"s who is not all she seems, the trail leads Lindow halfway across the world and back to London as he fights against time and against the bomber"s dangerously warped mind.
Only Lindow can crack the code. Only Lindow can stop another bomb . . .