In this fourth book, the eagerly awaited sequel to When Twilight Ends, the anti-hero Adam Collins – now Aiden Carter – is in his new role as Head of Security (Asia) for a major US investment group and resident in Tokyo. Suddenly, after four years, ‘the Office’ – the Secret Intelligence Service aka M16 – has reappeared in his life with a proposition. He was to find this ‘favour’ involved a kidnapped teenage girl, the daughter of a media mogul in Tokyo.

The brief: locate and extract – alive if possible. With his female partner, on loan from Japanese intelligence, Adam must revert to his previous life to negotiate a dangerous path through the clans of the Yakusa – the Japanese mafia – with an unknown ‘mole’ attempting to block them at every turn, including rendering them ‘inoperable’. In a race against time, they must travel the length of Japan, with their lives in increasing danger at every turn.