Dave Aston had been a soldier, a member of the elite British SAS. Until that final mission into bandit country. That was when his luck ran out ... Now, he's returned home to an alien civilian life. Everything is lost: his marriage, his home and his self-respect. Down and out, with a broken body and a damaged soul, on the cold, mean streets of his homeland. There he discovers that the astonishing circle of deceit is complete. With new friends amongst the down-and-outs, he discovers a trail of drug-dealing and murder that winds all the way back to the Taliban. But is he just too far down to fight back against a new evil force at work in his own back yard?