Jack Griggs, Director General of MI5, has a problem, one that he is unable to resolve using his own resources without compromising the agency or risking the life of an agent. Jack is under pressure from both the Home Secretary, and the Lord Privy Seal who wants his nephew found.
Jack can think of only one man who has the tenacity and attitude to successfully complete the mission. He has no option but to ask his old friend Ed Case to help. Ed not being an agent is able to make his own rules, and gives Griggs deniability should anything go wrong.
Ed has a choice and can turn down Jack's cry for help but Ed owes Jack for past favours and the man he wants him to find once saved his life so Ed is compelled to help despite putting himself in the most hostile and dangerous environment he has ever experienced.