Most people will have heard of the saying "set a thief to catch a thief". So what do you do when an assassination attempt goes wrong? Simple: you send another assassin to find and eliminate the first assassin. The story follows the misadventures of Nero, a British assassin, as he tries to escape the long and vengeful arm of a major American crime family who have employed their own specialist hitman to find and kill him. The book follows the actions of the two assassins as they jockey for position against each other in Los Angeles, London and then across the continent of Europe. They finally meet, but which one is the hunter and which one is the prey?