He knelt down and looked under the car but saw nothing suspicious. He took out a small flashlight, lay down on his back, and eased himself partially underneath the vehicle. The neat package of plastique with a trembler switch rested on the drive shaft ready to explode when the engine started. Following the murder of a young investigative journalist in France, Luc Hansen, an agent of the elite but shadowy DER, the European Union's security and intelligence directorate, uncovers a massive fraud and arms running operation orchestrated from within the heart of the European Commission in Brussels. As Luc races to close down the arms route, his investigation is endangered and the life of his partner, Joanna Donnelly, threatened by the existence of a 'mole' high inside the DER itself. As Luc embarks on a high-risk strategy to force his opponents into the open, his team find themselves in extreme danger culminating in a fierce gun battle deep in the Belgian countryside, the outcome of which hangs in the balance.