"Salamander. Her quarry, the world’s most wanted terrorist ... was on the run after she’d thwarted his attempt to nuke London, but not before he’d taken out eight world leaders."

The third and final book in Kirwan's trilogy doesn't disappoint. At the hands of the sadistic killer, Salamander, Nadia is dying of radiation poisoning and Jake is harboring a deadly device implanted in his eye, and as pawns once again in Salamander's game of "subterfuge and symmetry", they are willing to sacrifice anything, including each other, to make sure Salamander is eliminated.

This time Kirwan takes us from an underground maze of tunnels and chambers in Hong Kong to three thousand metres below the Red Sea, to the sewers of Moscow, and finally to the Arctic, the eighty-eighth parallel. 88º North. In this book, we are introduced to a triad, a secret society in China, the Janjaweed, an Arabic militia group, and the workings of an underwater oil rig. In addition, we meet more multi-dimensional characters along the way such as The Chef, Nadia's assassin mentor, Blue Fan, Salamander's granddaughter, and Greaves, an MI6 agent who owes Nadia his life.

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