Summary

When Secret Intelligence Service deniable operator Nick Stone aborts an officially sanctioned assassination attempt at the Houses of Parliament, having realized who the target is, he is given a chilling ultimatum by his bosses: fly to Panama and finish the job, or Kelly, the eleven-year-old orphan in his guardianship, will be killed.

When Secret Intelligence Service deniable operator Nick Stone aborts an officially sanctioned assassination attempt at the Houses of Parliament, having realized who the target is, he is given a chilling ultimatum by his bosses: fly to Panama and finish the job, or Kelly, the eleven-year-old orphan in his guardianship, will be killed. In the explosive denouement at the Panama Canal, with everyone's true colours untimately revealed, Nick Stone is forced to make the toughest decision of his life.