In a small English church, a wedding is about to take place, attended by the British Prime Minister and the American President. Soon after the wedding, the two world leaders will conclude a missile treaty which is vital to the West and fiercely opposed by Moscow. Meanwhile, around the globe, millions will be watching the wedding ceremony live on television.
Sally Denning, a junior officer at Scotland Yard, desperately searches for the assassins who are about to commit a crime that will rock the world. She knows full well, from her own bitter experience, that where Russia is concerned there are ‘no holds barred’. The one person who could help Sally, her colleague and lover, lies by the side of a country road, near death.
As the seconds tick away, on a hill above the church, a hand is poised over a switch that will blow the best hopes of the free world sky-high....