They each thought the other was dead. Startling revelations bring back the conflict fought in the 1970s between a terrorist mastermind and a specialist government task force set up to eliminate one of the world's deadliest and most successful organisations.

Long retired and enjoying a new life in the seclusion of a quiet Scottish countryside, the Colonel, with a new identity, is jolted out of retirement and resumes the search to bring the terrorist Dieter Schmidt to justice. Along the way he discovers a plan to bring a new horror to the world that intensifies his search for the elusive arch terrorist and criminal Dieter Schmidt.