Charlie Higgins was sat at LHR waiting to check-in for his flight to Johannesburg. He'd just returned from Washington DC, where he'd officially been hailed a hero and been decorated by President O Bama. Unofficially he'd been forced to resign from his top secret position and was retiring to South Africa. Someone had other ideas. There was a sadistic serial killer on the loose in Oxfordshire and he'd gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that Charlie remained in the UK. Who was this madman calling himself The Alphabet Killer and what did he want with Charlie?