For Dennis Markham, Labour MP and anti-nuclear campaigner, it is the end of a career. To Nick Mullen, ace reporter for the popular press, it's just another story. For the British Government it's a profound relief.

But when Vernon Bayliss, distinguished journalist, a colleague of Nick's and an old friend of Dennis Markham, dies in unexplained circumstances, Nick senses a bigger story.

The trail leads from a borstal break out, via an American air base in East Anglia, to the well-upholstered confines of a London club.

But who is trying to cover up what - and why?"