A page-turning thriller of life and death in the moral maze of the post-9/11 world from the international bestselling author and “best spy novelist ever” (Philadelphia Inquirer)The rules are simple.  Break up your shape.  Hide your smell.  Never show your silhouette.  Check the surfaces of your kit.  Space the movements of your team.  Use the shadows.  Danny “Badger” Baxter has a talent for surveillance.  He’s always followed the rules.  Until now, they’ve kept him alive.But now Badger has a bigger job than photographing dissident Northern Irish Republicans in muddy Ulster fields, or Islamic extremists on rainswept Yorkshire moors. MI6 have a plan to assassinate the Engineer—a brilliant maker of Improvised Explosive Devices, the roadside bombs which account for 80% of Allied casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.
