In London, any time soon, a bomb maker goes to work, with a fierce, Spartan creed to deliver destruction. Someone buried so deep in everyday life, no one can guess their moves. For a man adrift in a job he can't do, with a boss out to get him, the bombs are more than a distraction. They are the path to a new life. As order collapses and the state, paralysed, looks dangerously weak, Robert Millman clings to the only strength he knows: his obsession with Terri, a bright young woman who seems to offer a way back to his young days, when he still had chances. But as Millman gets sucked deeper into a radical underworld, he is forced to confront a violence that leaves nothing untouched, a violence from within. Mark Wagstaff, acclaimed author of Claire and The Canal, delivers a story of power and resistance, acceptance and radicalisation, that confronts the reader with the awkward, untidy tensions of our times.