The book talk about an assassin who is an Arabian terrorist, the only survivor of a three man hit squad ambushed by Israeli Intelligence in France but still an untried amateur, desperate to prove himself a killer. And McCoy, an Irish Republican Army mercenary, who is to provide him with the weapons he needs and get him to get his target. The tracker is a freelance who work for British Intelligence. Jimmy is more lethal than any of them, but only when he's sober. The target, Israel's leading nuclear scientist on a visit to London.