In Paris, an elderly man is assassinated as he takes his morning walk. In the wa
r-torn cities of Syria, government forces wage a bloody war against their own pe
ople. The Russians are propping up the government, the French are backing one re
bel fraction and the British are backing another.
And in north Africa, young
SAS trooper Danny Black is coming to the end of a gruelling tour of duty, or so
he thinks. Danny has a new mission. An MI6 agent needs to make contact with Syri
an rebel forces, and also with the private military contractors who are - unoffi
cially - training this rebel faction as it struggles to bring down their governm
ent and establish a new regime that will be favourable to British business inter
ests.
Danny will learn who the masters of war, the men who call the shots, re
ally are. Danny discovers a world where death is dispensed by the highest bidder
and individuals will betray anybody if the price is right.
