Cathy Connor has been running away all her life. So when she is sent to a remand centre for hitting her drunken father, her only choice is to run away. Living rough in Soho, she turns to prostitution. But Cathy finds that her past is never far behind.

Freelance hitman Will Robie has a mission which takes him first to Edinburgh and then to Tangier. His task is to eliminate suspected enemies of the US government. But back in DC, when government employee Denise Tamaron is detailed as his next target, Robie fails to pull the trigger. Why does she pose a threat to national security?