Paper Chase

Britain's capital is gripped by suspicion in the wake of the Spycatcher affair. Geoff Stringer, a crude and heavy-handed official from a government ministry, is dispatched to frighten four retired officers of MI5 and MI6. Meanwhile, on the Continent, a scattering of people with no apparent link to one another are being killed.

As the violence spreads, the story brings together renegade agents, a brutal civil servant, a murderous psychopath, and a political scandal on the scale of Irangate. Their paths converge with dramatic consequences.