For Jim Turner, an ex MI5 agent on top of the IRA’s most wanted list, life is about to get very complicated.
For the past eleven years, Jim Turner had enjoyed a quiet life with his wife and daughter in the New Forest. Only two people knew anything of his previous identity or his work as an intelligence agent in North Belfast; his wife Susan and his father-in-law Stephen Reid – or at least that’s what he’d thought.
Michael O’Hara, the man who Jim saw watching their house from the bottom of his garden, was certainly Irish, but who did he work for? The Irishman’s claim to be part of a joint operation between Dublin and London doesn’t ring true and Archie Long, an old colleague from MI5 is convinced that he’s with the IRA and he’s a killer. Could MI5 really be working hand-in-hand with the IRA? If so why, and what are the implications for the British Government and the already fragile situation within the Irish Assembly?
At the heart of the matter are Mohammed Musa, a reputable Middle-Eastern businessman and Colin Walker, a ruthless London crime boss. Why do they threaten the political stability of Northern Ireland and why do the IRA and apparently MI5 want them both dead?