Ahmed is a former sniper in the Bosnian army, haunted by the demons of his past.

He experiences the isolation and alienation of life in a decaying council estate while awaiting the result of his application for asylum. He meets Nazir, an Asian girl fleeing from an arranged marriage, and the two form a supportive relationship against the gangs that roam the estate, and against Nazir's vengeful family, who are intent on an honour killing.

Ahmed has to enter into a terrible bargain with an enigmatic Irishman, McMurtagh in order to ensure the safety of Nazir. What he doesn't realise is that his side of the bargain will once again involve him with Serbian criminals to whom Ahmed owes debts of blood and honour.

Events draw to an apocalyptic and bloody finale, where all debts of blood and honour are repaid in full, amid a landscape of flames and gunfire.

When a bomb rips through Birmingham New Street station all fingers point to al-Qaeda. Two of the bombers are British Asians. But why is the third, who blows himself up on a bus, a white college drop out of Irish parentage? And why was the bomb factory rented by a spoilt rich kid from Dublin with Irish Republican sympathies?

As the investigation unfolds, evidence of a link between al-Qaeda and dissident Irish Republicans is revealed. But who is the marriage broker between these two groups? What is their connection to the theft of hi-tech weapons from an American facility in Oxfordshire?

As the clock ticks down to the next atrocity, a network of individuals, whose paths have already crossed, stumble upon pieces of the jigsaw, while being hunted by powerful but shadowy figures whose sinister ambition is to create a Police State.

The protagonists discover the truth as the complete picture is revealed in a bloody and apocalyptic finale.