A weapon that was never supposed to exist
David Kessler is a forty-year-old South African investment banker with a settled life in Cape Town and no reason to look back. Then a former colleague is found dead, and David's name turns up in a file that should have been incinerated in 1990.
What follows is a hunt across three continents — Cape Town, London, Vienna — for a warhead nobody admits exists, by an enemy who knows David's old code names better than he does. To survive it, he will need help from an MI6 case officer who has her own reasons for staying off the books, and a young South African analyst who is the only person still tracking the file.
"The lockbox was real. The apartment was real. The cipher was real. Everything else, he could no longer be sure of."
A debut espionage thriller grounded in the real history of South Africa's nuclear programme, written by an author who knows the streets it walks down.