Samuel Carver makes bad accidents happen to worse people He's very good at his job But nobody's perfect And one of Carver's targets has got away Now the world faces a new age of conflict driven by religious fanaticism In Russia, the government have admitted they no longer know the whereabouts of one hundred small-scale 'suitcase nukes' In Afghanistan and Kosovo, ruthless terrorists plot the downfall of their hated enemies In Texas, a dying billionaire plots his own personal Armageddon And Carver can do nothing to stop them He was beaten and tortured and left to die, but Samuel Carver is a hard man to kill When he awakes in a Swiss sanatorium from weeks of torment, he discovers that the woman he loves has vanished Somehow he must find the strength to track her down Carver's hunt will take him deep into the heart of a conspiracy in which the lives of millions are at stake