When a young trooper is **shot dead** at the SAS’s renowned Killing House, Nick Stone is **uniquely**** qualified** to investigate. Less than forty-eight hours later, he finds himself in the telescopic sights of an assassin bent on **protecting a secret **that could strike at the heart of the establishment – the establishment that Stone has, in his own **maverick **fashion, spent most of his life fighting to protect. Isolated and **under perpetual threat**, he is propelled across Europe in a desperate quest to **uncover the truth** behind a terrible chain of events that began with a young man haunted by the screams of his brutally **murdered** friend.