'MI5 will change my life tonight'. The entry in the secret diary of Mary R. Walker (Metropolitan Police) is all too accurate. When Walker is murdered in a terrorist attack, her lover, Alan Rosslyn, undercover Senior Investigation Office r, is seconded to the hunt for a killer of unparalleled skill and savagery. The deeper Rosslyn penetrates the increasing number of atrocities, the clearer it becomes that the enemy is not only terrorism but the rivalries and corruption within the reformed and reorganized Security Services.

Author Biography

Reg Gadney was born in Cross Hills, Yorkshire in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School, Oxford and at Stowe. He studied English, Fine Art and Architecture at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge, and whilst there he became the editor of Granta. He won a Theodore von Karman Scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he became an Instructor and Research Fellow.Before going up to Cambridge he was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards and served in London, Windsor, Libya, France and in Norway where he qualified as a NATO instructor in Winter Warfare and Arctic Survival. He was then employed in the British Embassy in Oslo as Assistant to the Naval, Military and Air Attache.In 1969 he was appointed Deputy Controller of the National Film Theatre where he organised many film seasons, including the first tribute to the Cinematheque Francaise and Henri Langlois.In 1970 he became a part-time Tutor at the Royal College of Art. He was su