?I don?t like killing, but I?m good at it. Murder isn?t so bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my scope. Close-up work though ? a garrotte around a target?s neck or a knife in their heart ? it?s not for me. Too much empathy, that?s my problem. Usually. But not today. Today is different . . . ?The year is 1955 and something is very wrong with the world. It is fourteen years since Churchill died and the Second World War ended. In occupied Europe, Britain fights a cold war against a nuclear-armed Nazi Germany.In Berlin the Gestapo is on the trail of a beautiful young resistance fighter, and the head of the SS is plotting to dispose of an ailing Adolf Hitler and restart the war against Britain and her empire. Meanwhile, in a secret bunker hidden deep beneath the German countryside, scientists are experimenting with a force far beyond their understanding.Into this arena steps a nameless British assassin, on the run from a sinister cabal within his own government, and planning a private war against the Nazis. And now the fate of the world rests on a single kill in the morning . . .