Things were looking bad for the Met. The thin blue line had been broken too many times. Pay-offs, backhanders and cover-ups in every department, at every level. And now a student is killed when police move in on an animal rights demonstration. Jack Bentham is put in charge of the enquiry. But Operation Bad Apple, a massive internal investigation to clear out police corruption, is rattling everyone and no one wants to talk. No one, that is, except some very heavy villains who are dropping a lot of hints about a lot of very senior policemen

The Soviet Mig-31 is the deadliest warplane ever built. Codenamed FIREFOX by NATO, it can fly at over 4000 mph, is invulnerable to radar - and has a lethally sophisticated weapons system that its pilot can control by thought impulses. There's only one way for the West to fight the greatest threat since the Second World War - hijack the Firefox!