The wife of Mark Fraser, a former British agent, disappears while shopping in a remote Highland village - kidnapped by a group of ruthless terrorists.

Desperate to rescue his wife, Fraser attempts to unravel a tortuous web of intrigue and violence. His mission takes him to the tourist resorts and remote mountains of Southern Spain where he meets many old acquaintances from MI5, and the KGB. There he learns that to save his wife, he must kill an innocent man.