No sooner had former special services agent Cotton Malone settled in for a pleasant vacation with his son Gary than everything immediately went wrong. His former boss asked him for a favor: on the way, he had to escort one juvenile criminal from the USA to England. But when Cotton handed the boy over to the local police, he suddenly got hit on the head— and when he came to, he found that his son and their “travel companion” had vanished without a trace! Malone rushed to search—and discovered that a flash drive containing information, accidentally stolen by a teenager, was to blame. And the information is one of the most forbidden and deadly secrets in European history—its exposure can still lead to catastrophe…