The latest dramatic espionage-political thriller from the pen of a master storyteller brings an engaging, action-packed and deeply human story from the present, in which peace-minded representatives of the secret services and the top world powers try to prevent a catastrophe. At the beginning, they face small local conflicts - in the Sahara desert or on the Korean peninsula - but due to the escalation of retaliation in the style of "an eye for an eye, a tooth" they can very quickly turn into a world war, as it has already happened in the past. And Ken Follett warns: let's try not to let it happen again. Never. Because with the current arsenal of weapons, we would probably have no future...