Secrets cost lives, and the next 72 hours will hammer that point home as ex-British MI6 agent Alex Jordan tries to get to the bottom of his mentor"s murder-and finds himself in the middle of a terrorist plot. Jordan follows the trail to former MI6 boss and Soviet double agent Paul Grady, who has been nursing an unrequited desire to build an intelligence empire all his own. Grady is plotting to assassinate the North Korean President during a state visit to Britain so he can replace the demigod with a power-crazed thug from within the Korean military-giving him lucrative intelligence rights in Asia. The only threat to this plan is a journal that Alex"s friend passed on to an MI6 messenger as life insurance after infiltrating Grady"s organization, but the journal is useless without the decipher key-code that died along with the messenger. Desperate to avenge his friend, Alex is forced to turn to his former lover (now a senior police offi cer) for assistance-pushing them both past the limits of endurance as they discover the true meaning of loyalty. "As the camera captures an image, so a skilled writer can bring a scene to life. B. J. Kibble"s unique style breathes instant life into his characters while his stories explode with emotion and action." - Dick Ross, Writing Well