Jamie Tulloch is a successful exec at a top tech company but he has a secret. He's had a helping hand from the Legend Programme a secret intelligence effort to prepare impenetrable backstories for undercover agents. Real people willing to hand over their identities for a few weeks in return for plum jobs influence and access. Arriving at a French airport ready to hand over his identity Jamie finds his primary contact dead the agent who's supposed to step into his life AWOL and his options for escape non-existent. Pitched into a deadly mission on hostile territory Jamie must contend with a rogue Russian general arms dealers elite hackers CIA tac-ops and the discovery of a brewing plan for war. Dangerously out of his depth can Jamie play himself well enough to avoid being killed - and to avert a lethal global conflict?