A future Scotland - independent, but not free. Economic support came from China, but with that came erosion of freedoms, and the disappearance of people who objected to what was going on.

So a resistance network was formed, with some very smart people working to tell the world what was really happening, and they had a plan to expose the corruption and lies. Unfortunately the anti-terrorist force - PSAT - also had some very smart people, one of whom was very good at second-guessing what the network might do.

Harry Campbell was a retired, divorced headteacher, quietly working part time with the Scottish educational establishment. His only ambition was to escape from Scotland, to Canada, to join his daughter and enjoy his sunset years. But the network needed someone like him, and he agreed to help them - after all, what was the worst that could happen?

He was about to find out...