Two dead in a terrorist attack on the Second National Bank in Atlanta, a vicious mayoral re-election and puzzling intervention by the Ku Klux Klan, complicates British counter-terrorism expert Dr Marcus Denning's solemn dance of death with Abu Almussab, Denning's one-time torturer in Beirut. And both are being watched by a nameless man in the black Lincoln whose motivation is unknowable. Nicholas Clough's taut, twisting thriller takes a headlong dive behind the mask of respectability and down into the depths of ferocity and deception.