High over a small town on the Scottish borders, a bomb explodes on an American airliner: an act of international terrorism. There are no survivors. Two years earlier, three old spies play out one last move in their life-long game. What is the connection between these two events, one headline news, the other terrifyingly secret? One man should have been on the plane and among the dead. While he changed his plans, his son flew on. Now investigators are asking questions about his son - was he involved? Was he duped into carrying the bomb? Or did he even get off the plane himself? Drawn to discover the truth, the father enters a murky world of arms deals and illegal back channels - a world dominated by the former CIA spymaster, James Jesus Angleton
Originally published: London: Simon & Schuster, 2006