The most dangerous place on earth holds the key to their freedom. When Islamic militants infiltrate an elite British counter-narcotics programme in Afghanistan, disaster is averted thanks to ex-SAS soldiers John Patterson and Dusty Miller. But when fall-out from the affair threatens to topple the West's fragile Afghan alliance and expose failings inside the UK's new crime-fighting agency, John and dusty suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of the law - and on the run. One place on earth holds the key to clearing their names: Nuristan, a remote Afghan province and notorious terrorist haven.