It is 11 January 2012. Before being able to deliver a speech that celebrates the 100th anniversary of Scotts expedition to the South Pole, Verney Chief of Defence Intelligence is found dead due to a heart attack. Or so it seems. Celia Nevinson, the head of MI5 is suspicious and asks Daniel Jacot a colonel on the staff of the Joint Intelligence Committee to go on a secret mission. He must dig through the secretive world of the intelligence forces, as well as the painful realm of his past as officer in the Falklands War, to discover the clandestine truth. Set against Britain's Special Relationship and its growing cooperation with the French Surete, the reader heads deep into the entrails of the Whitehall spy industry and its Byzantine functioning.
