Book description
The dark cloud over Britain will not return. We certainly need have no
fear of travelling by train, Tube or bus in London or any other city.
Seven years later and Andrew Aitken re-reads the newspaper cutting he
tore out and kept. The focus of most policing and security recently has
been the London Olympics; but not for Aitken. For him, there is a puzzle
to unravel whose roots pre-date the 1948 London Olympics. This becomes
further complicated by the brutal murder of an elderly former MI6
officer connected to the case he is now working on. Aitken soon becomes
convinced that this killing is not the consequence of an apparent
robbery that has gone wrong, but a deliberate cold-blooded murder, made
to look like the aftermath of a break-in. From a series of apparently
unconnected incidents, before and after the old man s death, a bizarre
picture begins to emerge. While investigating one of the leads, Aitken
stumbles across (or rather is handed by another intelligence agency)
information relating to possible terrorist activity. So sensitive is
this information that Aitken is suspended from duty and the case he has
been working on is halted. Having discovered who he believes to be the
old man s killer and the reason for the killing, he is now powerless to
pursue the matter further. He wiles away the days of his suspension
waiting for the terrorist attack to happen. Aitken is unaware, however,
that elsewhere the old man s killer and others are planning something
far more devastating than he or any of his colleagues could ever have
imagined or planned for. Apparently unconnected individuals and events
gradually reveal a single thread of connectivity; and seeds sown decades
earlier start to bring forth their harvest. The dark cloud over
Britain will not return. We certainly need have no fear of travelling by
train, Tube or bus in London or any other city. Seven years later and
Andrew Aitken re-reads the newspaper cutting he tore out and kept. The
focus of most policing and security recently has been the London
Olympics; but not for Aitken. For him, there is a puzzle to unravel
whose roots pre-date the 1948 London Olympics. This becomes further
complicated by the brutal murder of an elderly former MI6 officer
connected to the case he is now working on. Aitken soon becomes
convinced that this killing is not the consequence of an apparent
robbery that has gone wrong, but a deliberate cold-blooded murder, made
to look like the aftermath of a break-in. From a series of apparently
unconnected incidents, before and after the old man s death, a bizarre
picture begins to emerge. While investigating one of the leads, Aitken
stumbles across (or rather is handed by another intelligence agency)
information relating to possible terrorist activity. So sensitive is
this information that Aitken is suspended from duty and the case he has
been working on is halted. Having discovered who he believes to be the
old man s killer and the reason for the killing, he is now powerless to
pursue the matter further. He wiles away the days of his suspension
waiting for the terrorist attack to happen. Aitken is unaware, however,
that elsewhere the old man s killer and others are planning something
far more devastating than he or any of his colleagues could ever have
imagined or planned for. Apparently unconnected individuals and events
gradually reveal a single thread of connectivity; and seeds sown decades
earlier start to bring forth their harvest.
