Nick Stone is a deniable asset to British Intelligence. His refusal to assassinate an individual in the Houses of Parliament leads to a chilling ultimatum from his bosses. Either he finishes the job, or Kelly, the 11-year old girl in his guardianship, will surely die.

Nick Stone's future has never looked as bleak. The only person he's ever loved is dead. The only people who might give him a reason not to join her have turned their backs. Until a chance encounter with a man he saved ten years ago appears to throw him a lifeline...But on the bullet- and bomb -scarred streets of Baghdad, second chances are in short supply. A simple quest becomes a journey to the .

Body Guarding a TV crew on the streets of war-torn Basra, ex-deniable operator Nick Stone seems certain to die when insurgent gunmen attack. Only the reporter's swift action saves his life. When the reporter vanishes within hours, presumed kidnapped, Stone is asked to find him. The trail leads from Iraq to London, Dublin, and ultimately Kabul.

Ethan is 17 and desperate to escape from his dead-end life. When he sees someone BASE jump from the top of his block of flats, it changes the way he sees the world for ever. Soon, Ethan is caught up in adrenaline-fuelled world of skydiving. He's invited to join an elite skydive team, but is he signing up for more than just jumping out of planes?

Ethan Blake is seventeen and desperate to escape from his dead-end life. When he sees someone BASE jump from the top of his block of flats, it changes the way he sees the world for ever. He's a natural, so it's no surprise when he's invited to join an elite skydive team, but is he signing up for more than just jumping out of planes?

Danny Watts' grandfather, Fergus, was a traitor, an explosives expert who betrayed his country and his regiment for money. He was arrested and left to rot and die in a Columbian jail. Danny sets out to track down his grandfather and expose him. He sets in train a sequence of events which throw them on the run from the people who want them dead.

Outside of Pakistan, the world's highest concentration of al-Quaeda lurks in South-East Asia and there, Nick Stone's bosses get wind of an act of terrorism that will dwarf even the nightmare of 9/11. Stone is despatched to Malaysia by the CIA to assasinate a biochemist, but there are complications.

December 2001. A Zodiac inflatable slips away from a submarine off the North African coast. If he hadn't needed American citizenship so badly, Nick Stone wouldn't have agreed to do this one last job, but the CIA's offer of a new life, and the chance to share it with Carrie, is one he cannot refuse.