The battle for Britain rages...

As the fighting sweeps across northern England, Eddie Novak and his team disobey orders and head south to help a desperate comrade reunite with his young family.

Their destination is a village plagued by criminals and collaborators, men of violence who maim and kill and take whatever they want. Including children.

As they journey deep into the heart of a hostile city on an unauthorised rescue mission, Eddie and his friends know that getting there will be hard enough, but getting out alive will require a miracle.

Elsewhere, in a brutal caliphate prison, Bertie Payne is facing his worst nightmare – death by crucifixion. As the day of his public execution nears, Bertie's hopes fade. Escape is impossible. Yet in war, nothing is certain.

Elsewhere, a coup in Baghdad threatens to unleash a global nuclear exchange, and Prime Minnister Harry Beecham has become an unwitting target for a rogue enemy faction.

Every day brings more uncertainty, fear, and death.

On both sides of the frontline, lives hang by the barest of threads.