An international thriller set in London, Chicago, Stockholm and Central Asia!
The FBI building on West Rooseveldt Road, Chicago from where Special Agent Dani Shapiro investigates the attempted assassination of a top military investigator from Washington DC... she suddenly finds herself in a whirlwind of discoveries not only about the crime she's investigating but also about herself...
The headquarters of the Swedish Security Service in the Kungsholmen district of Stockholm where Inspector Per Björklund is investigating the murder of two top scientists and the theft of bio-toxins from a top secret research facility at the university. Who are the people in Uzbekistan sending toxins to Sweden? And why?
The mighty Registan in Samarkand on the Silk Road in Central Asia where local warlord and drugs baron Islom Temurov is planning the violent takeover of government unless the mysterious American can stop him... Meanwhile Lieutenant Colonel Yakubov has other ideas...
The headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 at Vauxhall Cross in London. Agent Leo Hamza, of joint English and Pakistani parentage, is uniquly qualified to investigate the bombing of a railway station that kills the Head of MI6 and sprays a deadly toxin into the air. All Londoners are put under curfew and the government is under pressure with a lockdown of ten million people. What is the toxin? Who planted the bomb? And what are the links to events in Chicago, Stockholm and Samarkand? Leo Hamza flies to Uzbekistan to find out... and there he meets FBI Special Agent Dani Shapiro on the trail of the mysterious American, the Uzbek warlord and the deadly woman whose trail leads them back to Washington DC...