Ring main - George Brown

"It's a kill job. Somebody's had a cross drawn on his forehead. A big, unmentionable, political somebody that's going to take one of the best in the world to send him away..."

A US state visit in the diplomatic diaries, a Labour MP freelancing as an IRA fixer, and a mole at the top of British Intelligence worth forty-loads of Armalites to the dangerous men in Dublin... the high-explosive ringmain circuit is falling into place.

Its last connection is the world’s most expensive death dealer who kills the highest placed for the highest price. Code-named Siegfried, he’s in London to earn three-quarters of a million pounds with a job on the side.

Between the steel toe-cap going in and the ringmain triggering to detonate, the kill-master will find out which side...