Hector Cross loses everything when his beloved wife, Hazel Bannock, is murdered. Hector recognizes the ruthless hand of an enemy he has faced many times before: the terrorist group that he believed defeated has re-emerged like a deadly scorpion from its rock.

Hazel has left Hector with a child, a precious daughter, who he will go to the ends of the earth to protect. Determined to fight back, Hector draws together a team of his most loyal friends from Cross Bow Security and travels to the remotest Middle East, to hunt those who pursue him and his loved ones. For brutal figures from the Bannock family’s past thought long-gone are returning, with an agenda so sinister that Hector realizes he is facing a new breed of enemy. One whose shifting attack and dark, shocking secrets take Hector to the heart of Africa. But Hector does not only seek justice for these crimes. He thirsts for revenge and he wants it to be bloody.