The story starts of with a preface of a mission during the last days of the second Gulf War ie Operation Iraqi Freedom. The story in proper starts with a character Darren who works for a call centre in Brighton. In his spare time he likes computers and hacking. One day he gets a tip from his friend about a hot site that he thinks Darren might like to look at. Unfortunately, A covert government organisation monitors certain sites including this one. What Darren finds is left to the reader's imagination, though there are clues throughout the book. It is something the US would kill to keep quiet. So they send a hit man to find out the extent of what was taken and how much Darren has seen. Greg, the hitman, has a past as a former Recon soldier who keeps having flashbacks to the war in the Gulf and what happened.