Nicolas Creel, a super-rich arms dealer, decides that the best way to boost his business is to start a new cold war, and he won't let anything or anyone get in his way As international tensions rise and the superpowers line up against each other, the lives of three very different people will never be the same again As intelligence agent Shaw, academic Anna Fischer and ambitious journalist Katie James are all drawn into Creel's games, can anything stop the world from spiralling out of control?