RAF Tempests are crashing on apparently routine missions, and no one knows why. The Accident Investigation Bureau is blaming pilot error. Suspicious of a cover-up, Flight Lieutenant Drew Miller, whose own friends have been among the fatalities, determines to find out more.
It soon becomes clear that the key to the mystery is in the cockpit of the Tempest - but how can he unlock it without ending up dead himself?
In this electrifying first novel, John Nicol has combed his remarkable first-hand combat experience and his intimate knowledge as a veteran of the cockpit, with his talents as a born storyteller, to produce the most exciting, most significant British thriller-writing debut of the year.