Some betrayals don’t just end careers—they create killers.
When Max-Catt uncovers a leak at the heart of Bastion, the elite British intelligence unit he leads in the field, he makes a decision that seemingly costs him everything.
Cast out and stripped of his identity, Max finds a new world waiting in the shadows. Freelance work. No rules. No oversight. Just contracts—and consequences. As he rises through the ranks of a covert organisation operating on the dark web, his reputation grows… but so does the danger.
Because two men are hunting a ghost.
DCS Barlow of Scotland Yard and MI6 operative Joe Carmichael are tracking a precision killer executing flawless hits across the globe. They’re closing in fast. What they don’t realise is that the man they’re chasing is someone they once trusted.
And when the truth finally surfaces… whose side will Max-Catt be on?