The battle for Britain rages...

As the fighting sweeps across northern England, Eddie Novak and his friends break all the rules and infiltrate enemy lines to help a desperate comrade reach home and reunite with his young family.

But the once peaceful village has been plagued by criminals and collaborators, men of violence who maim and kill and take whatever they want. Including children.

Now Eddie and the boys must embark on a dangerous rescue mission and journey deep into the heart of a hostile city. Getting there will be hard enough, but if they want to get out alive they're going to need a miracle.

Elsewhere, in a brutal caliphate prison, Bertie Payne is facing his worst nightmare - death by crucifixion. As the day of his public execution nears, Bertie's hopes fade. Escape is impossible. Yet in war, nothing is certain.

As the pressure builds, nerves are tested to the limit. A coup in Baghdad threatens to unleash a global nuclear exchange. Harry Beecham has become an unwitting target for a rogue enemy faction, and Governor Spencer has seen the writing on the wall...and it terrifies her.

Every day brings more uncertainty, fear, and death.

On both sides of the frontline, lives hang by the barest of threads.