Brexit looms and Charles Thoroughgood Chief of MI6 is forbidden for political reasons from spying on the EU. But when an EU official volAva Gold is working the late shift as a cabbie when she picks up a young woman named Holly who's worse for wear. Not knowing where to drop her off Ava ends up letting Holly crash at her place - but she will regret this act of kindness. Because opening her home up in this way sets Ava on a dangerous path. It's a path that leads to missing women murder and the one man she's been trying to stay away from: local nightclub owner Chris Street. And it also brings her to the attention of another man a man no one is watching but who's been watching Ava for a very long time . . .unteers the EU’s negotiating bottom lines to one of his officers Charles has to report it. Whitehall is eager for more but as the case develops Charles realises that it may not be quite what it appears. At the same time he finds he has a family connection with a possible terrorist whom MI5 want checked out. In both cases Charles is forced to become his own agent seeking what he really does not want to find.
