Within the European Union, national espionage agencies compete for supremacy against each other - and against the CIA. When the Americans discover that the director of the French spy agency has secret investments in the Bank of Palestine, alarm bells go off. Jake Grafton, new head of the CIA's European Operations, calls upon Tommy Carmellini to help investigate. They face a tangle of espionage, terrorism and murder, discovering an elaborate strategy to infiltrate Al Queda with a top-level plant - but who is playing whom? As Carmellini goes undercover he finds he is running for his life. Grafton and Carmellini uncover a horrifying plan to shake the West - and a Catch 22: can they stop the conspiracy without compromising the intelligence source that could bring down Al Queda once and for all?
