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PI Lucy Clewes stumbles into a secret war raging in the back streets and shadows of London. A chilling prediction soon follows: she and her team will all be dead before the London Olympic Games opening ceremony, three short weeks away.To buy time she hires a former soldier, Miles, as personal security. But the discovery of a dead British agent in the wardrobe of an apartment they recently visited leads to a precarious game of cat-and-mouse with the police and a brutal adversary who is...
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PI Lucy Clewes stumbles into a secret war raging in the back streets and shadows of London. A chilling prediction soon follows: she and her team will all be dead before the London Olympic Games opening ceremony, three short weeks away.To buy time she hires a former soldier, Miles, as personal security. But the discovery of a dead British agent in the wardrobe of an apartment they recently visited leads to a precarious game of cat-and-mouse with the police and a brutal adversary who is always one step ahead. As old friends are lost and new alliances formed, no one can be trusted. The chase gathers pace as money, spies and bullets fly from all sides forcingLucy to confront her ghosts or perish and Miles to grasp a chance for revenge to find his own redemption before they both become the latest fatalities in Britain's most secret war