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They have crossed each other's path twice before. The third time will be their last. King knows that until he finds and kills the former MI6 assassin then he will be looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life. But Collins is the best there is. Trained by King's mentor before being...

Their symbol is an iron fist. Each finger represented by a country with an agenda. Five countries forming a new axis of evil that plots against the West and democracy. An organisation that nobody knew existed until luck intervened. MI5 has a new director, and its special operations wing has been disbanded. King and the team are scattered around the globe. British intelligence has been compromised, data breached and AI interfaced cyber-warfare a reality.

Rob Stone is taking time out to climb in the mountains of Oregon. Taking a break, drinking coffee in a diner in a small mountain town he watches a helpless man humiliated. Stepping in to help, he sparks a confrontation. Within an hour somebody tries to kill him. A message has been sent, but Stone will not be pushed. As he starts to investigate what some people in the town do not want uncovered, the truth becomes unthinkable.

Waking naked and alone on a deserted island, Rob Stone has no recollection of how he got there, or who he is. His memory is one of snapshots, each one building a picture of what he does and who he truly is. He discovers he has both the skills and will to survive. But survival is one thing, being hunted is another. A beautiful journalist in desperate need of help. The dark web, the dumping ground for the evil of the Internet. An enemy from his past. Murder, abduction and betrayal. Stone must try to remember the time before the island changed everything.

At a US research facility funded by the military and clandestine agencies, a super-virus has been created as a first-strike military weapon. During its conception, the anti-virus has furthered the possibilities of medical research by decades. Such is its potential, treachery has struck from within. If the virus is released, then the anti-virus will be worth billions to the pharmaceutical industry. Isobel Bartlett worked on the project and knows its potential.

People go to Alaska to escape something. Rob Stone is escaping his past and the FBI. Until he can clear his name, he will use the two things Alaska has to hide - the wilderness and an understanding that everyone has their own reasons for being there. A chance meeting with a woman, a shared smile, and Stone is ready to move on. But when someone tries to run Stone out of town, things take an unexpected turn.

MI5 agents have been executed and more agents have been abducted with no terms received from the kidnappers. An MI5 analyst is missing having accessed and downloaded prohibited security data. The trial of notorious radical cleric Mullah Al-Shaqqaf collapses, his extradition falls apart. A man known to have funded ISIS, recruit fighters for Syria and coerce teenagers to martyr themselves. Again he walks free.

When Rob Stone gives a ride to a woman on the run, he has unwittingly crossed a drugs cartel. With the DEA, FBI, and local cops closing in on America's most wanted, it's time for Stone to stop running and start fighting. But south of the border on the cartel's own terms, the fight is altogether more brutal....

Recuperating in Cornwall after being injured in a terrorist attack, anti-terrorism officer DCI Ross O'Bryan discovers a dark secret. An unthinkable crime that somebody has attempted to cover up. Tasked with investigating, he soon finds himself immersed in a world of deception, police corruption, and organized crime. O'Bryan has his own dark secrets too. In a place where he has no alliances and is viewed with suspicion, it is only a matter of time before he is found out.

A new game reserve in South Africa plays host to six people all connected to the mysterious owner. But why are they all here? And how will they survive the weekend?

MI5 have suffered at the hands of this enemy. Good people lost, lives changed forever. One man is the link to the so-called Iron Fist. A network of spies and saboteurs working for five countries in a new axis of evil, and King and the team won't stop until they find him.

After breaking a case in Cornwall where he had been recuperating after a terrorist attack, DCI Grant threw himself into undercover work, until a mistake cost him the case and his contact her life.

King battles with his conscience and ruthless enemies as he deposes an African dictator and installs a new leader. But is he the best man for the job, and can King make a difference in a region known only for corruption and killing?

Recuperating from an injury at a colleague's holiday home in Cornwall, Grant is soon pulled into a world of murder, corruption and vice.

When the hunt for the female assassin who killed his sister proves futile, King returns to MI5 where he is propositioned by a secretive organisation headed by a familiar face. King takes on both the Russian intelligence services and organised crime to halt them bypassing sanctions and flooding the UK market with forged sovereigns cast from seized Nazi gold in a bid to sink Britain's economy.

For ex-SAS and current MI5 Officer Dave Lomu, Fiji was his childhood home. Leaving under a cloud and not looking back for 20 years means there is little left for him in paradise. But when his family call for help, he returns to a world of ruthless developers, police and government corruption, and the murder of a boy and the disappearance of the half-sister he never knew he had. Lomu has a particular set of skills and is determined to get answers.

It has been 20 years since MI6 gave King a new identity, and now somebody knows the truth. A killer is taunting him, killing those King was once close to in a bid to force him out into the open. MI5 is under cyber-attack. GCHQ have found the source of the cyber-terrorism and have uncovered transcripts naming a spy within the UK government. Dispatching a team to investigate, they discover a link between the source of the cyber-terrorism and the man contracted to kill King.

A delegation of OPEC executives and intelligence operatives working deep undercover are taken hostage in Angola and moved across the border into the Congo. The region is recovering from 30 years of civil and tribal war, and international oil contracts are up for grabs, but only if the area can be deemed stable. The standoff must be ended quickly, but the newly appointed Angolan government will not grant Britain permission to deploy the SAS and has charged the woefully under-skilled defense force with rescuing the hostages.

It had been a well-orchestrated defection when King put a Russian bio-weapons scientist on a British submarine under heavy gunfire. But he should have checked. Should have checked that the asset wasn’t contaminated. Tragically infected with the biological agent she was smuggling to the West, King has been burdened not only by her fate, but of the 118 men onboard the submarine when it disappeared.

When a deniable mission to infiltrate Albanian and Russian organized crime is compromised, the Security Service distance themselves ahead of political fallout, leaving their missing operatives off the grid with no clue to their status. Alex King is re-evaluating his options after a rogue mission has cost him his career.