When Robert Maxwell is assassinated by an unknown agency, conflicting interests in the arms trade threaten all-out war. Ex-SAS Corporal Pete Slater is trying to make a new life for himself as a teacher, but when he is accidentally caught up in an attempt by terrorists to kidnap one of his pupils, he finds himself sucked back into the world of undercover operations. A mission to kill an arms dealer in Paris leads to a high-speed chase across Europe and into Eastern Europe. There Slater discovers the connection between Robert Maxwell, the arms industry and the origins in Nazism of the government agency who employs him.