As nuclear security fails, one reluctant man stands in harm’s way… 

World economic and political systems begin to self-destruct in the aftermath of a major earthquake on the Pacific rim. On a cold, remote island in the South Atlantic, Alex Carmichael and his lonely team watch the spiralling decline with growing concern as they supervise a high-security facility buried deep underground in the rock. Its purpose–to contain plutonium from decommissioned nuclear weapons. But others have their eyes on this bleak location–and their goal is to change the balance of international power.

As Alex tries desperately to evade and then to thwart a highly competent group of international mercenaries the action moves rapidly from the wintry Urals to Vienna, across northern Scotland, through European castles and capitals to the high-tech world of Proteus in the stormy waters of the South Atlantic. As the shadowy objectives of the group slowly emerge, events reach a shocking and unexpected climax…