The Dream: Perestroika succeeds, the world begins to disarm, a new era of peace and stability is ushered in. The Soviet President continues with his program of reform and liberalisation... The Nightmare: Patrick Hyde, of British Intelligence, on patrol with a mujahideen group inside Soviet Tadjikistan, witnesses the shooting down of a Soviet military airliner by the Red Army. When he recognises a senior CIA officer and, to his horror, the identity of one of the aircraft's passengers, he has only one priority, to reach London and Sir Kenneth Aubrey.

London CIA chief Brendan Wallace knows better than to ignore a rumour. Especially one about a sensitive spot like Gibraltar. He hires his old friend, veteran Marine Jake Melrose, to investigate. Then Wallace is murdered, and the assignment is suddenly top priority. In an uneasy alliance with the informant, ex-SAS man Billy Vane, and with the beautiful wife of the secretary to the Defence Minister, Jake scents a conspiracy at the very heart of Whitehall.

One of the war's strangest stories makes one of the year's outstanding films....

In 1982 Argentina did almost everything wrong in its defence of the Falkland Islands. Despite this, the outcome was quite rightly described as a 'close run thing'. And that is precisely what has occurred in a war that will shortly be referred to worldwide as Falklands 2! Argentina's back, and this time it's very different. Politically motivated by the spectre of riches greater than that of North Sea oilfields, the modern day administration meticulously prepares for an invasion by stealth of the almost forgotten Falklands. With a large fleet of upgraded fighter jets and an arsenal of over 200 Exocet anti ship missiles, the Argentines reinforce the Islands to the extent that it is almost impossible for the British to militarily respond. But they must, and the why and how is what makes this new generation techno thriller a non stop adventure that will have you engrossed from start to finish.

The Falklands 1999 - a vital strategic stronghold in the South Atlantic, and a prize gem in the oil-rich Antarctic. For RAF pilot Sean Riever it is a place of ghosts. For Jane Clark, the only female in squadron, a place of tough decisions. An air of menace hangs over the desolate, battle-scarred landscape; present dangers and past mysteries lurk in the shadows on the skyline. And Sean's compulsion to live up to a legendary hero leads him towards a woman whose loneliness matches his own.