From the master of suspense, a novel about a very different kind of war - with a very different set of rules.

It is night in Manhattan. The President of the United States is scheduled to have dinner with an old friend, but in the building across the street, a man has disabled the security and stands at a window with a rifle in his hand. Fortunately, he is not successful - but this is only the beginning. Someone is recruiting a shadowy network of agents with the intention of creating terror. Their range is broad, their identities masked, their methods subtle. White House operative Blake Johnson and his opposite number in British intelligence, Sean Dillon, set out to trace the source of the havoc. But behind the first man lies another, and behind him another still. And that man is not pleased by the interference.

• Jack Higgins lives on Jersey in the Channel Islands
• Eight of Higgins' books have been made into films or TV movies, including The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch a King, On Dangerous Ground, Eye of the Storm, and Thunder Point
• Every novel that he has written, including his most recent works, Bad Company and Midnight Runner, has become an international bestseller
• Jack Higgins has written more than thirty books that have been translated into more than forty languages