In London, any time soon, a bomb maker goes to work, with a fierce, Spartan
creed to deliver destruction. Someone buried so deep in everyday life, no one
can guess their moves.
For a man adrift in a job he can’t do, with a boss out to get him, the bombs are
more than a distraction. They are the path to a new life.
As order collapses and the state, paralysed, looks dangerously weak, Robert
Millman clings to the only strength he knows: his obsession with Terri, a
bright young woman who seems to offer a way back to his young days, when he
still had chances.
But as Millman gets sucked deeper into a radical underworld, he is forced to
confront a violence that leaves nothing untouched, a violence from within