The United Nations is under threat. After a spate of attacks, a round of hostage taking erupts in three Western European capitals. A previously unknown group claim responsibility. The members are all women. Revenge is their business. All are survivors. All have come of age. And all have a personal hatred of the United Nations whose peacekeepers failed them.
Taking time out after his last bruising mission in Russia, Tallis is recalled to London. When the first hostage is executed Tallis struggles to keep up with the killers’ relentless pace, then events take a sudden and deadly twist: the secretary general of the United Nations is kidnapped. But all is not as it appears. Faced with a crisis decision by his paymasters, Tallis is forced to choose between two evils, an act that will change his life forever.
Taking time out after his last bruising mission in Russia, Tallis is recalled to London. When the first hostage is executed Tallis struggles to keep up with the killers’ relentless pace, then events take a sudden and deadly twist: the secretary general of the United Nations is kidnapped. But all is not as it appears. Faced with a crisis decision by his paymasters, Tallis is forced to choose between two evils, an act that will change his life forever.
