A new Prime Minister committed to scrapping Britain's nuclear deterrent - a Russian president meddling in other countries' elections and an isolationist in the White House...Does any of this sound familiar?John Passmore's prescient novel, written in the 1980's and set in what was then the future, suddenly becomes terrifyingly relevant today.As NATO collapses and Russia looks to the West, the future of the world rests in the hands of a submarine captain, his aged father, an old-fashioned reporter and a government secretary in love with a man who is not what he seems..."Fast-moving and immensely prescient, there are echoes of the early works of Ken Follett and Frederick Forsyth." - Daily Mail