Author(s): Adam LeBor

Crime

UN covert negotiator, Yael Azoulay, has travelled to Europe to help in the investigation of a people-trafficking ring linked to a series of terrorist attacks. The ring-leader? An anonymous Iranian. Azoulay's boss, UN Secretary General Hussein, asks Yael to broker a secret meeting with the Iranian president in Reykjavic. All parties want the violence to stop. But in Iceland, Azoulay realises that the terrorist chain leads to a much more sinister and powerful enemy than she thought. Someone she's met before. And someone for whom terror is just the beginning...