Fast-moving action novel in the successful tradition of Reilly's previous books, "Ice Station" and "Area 7". Captain Shane 'Scarecrow' Schofield's skills are deployed from Arctic Russia to the Afghan border in a bid to stave off high-powered bounty hunters. Total sales for previous three titles now stand at over 250,000 copies.

Schofield watches his mission to eliminate a Siberian turn into a bloodbath. A consortium of staggering power and wealth has included his name on a list of targets to be eliminated. Now every hunter on the planet is on his trail, while he must track down the perpetrators of a conspiracy about to reduce many of the cities of the world to ashes.

Matthew Reilly, born and still resident in Sydney, studied law before turning his pen to fiction. His previous novels, Contest, Ice Station, Temple and Area 7, have been massive bestsellers in every continent.