Starting out as a Dan Brownish search for ancient artefacts it then turns into a conspiracy thriller concerning a lethal virus. By the end I was unsure who was supposed to be doing what to whom and why and I cannot help the feeling that Mr O'Bryan was as much in the dark as I was.
London is being torn apart by Muslim demonstrators following a police raid on a mosque. Sean Ryan, an American working in Oxford, learns that a collegue has been murdered in Istanbul and flies there to investigate where he is instantly targeted by assassins. Rescued by Isabel Sharp from the British Embassy (the love interest) they survive numerous adventures before the climax in London.
I cannot escape the feeling that Mr O'Bryan originaly intended this to be about a Muslim plot to take over Britain until someone (his publisher?) decided that it was too much of a risk to go ahead. The result is that the reader is left with a conspiracy without a satisfactory explanation for it's existance.
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