While at the Turkish Embassy, Zoe is caught up in a siege by the Kurdish Liberation Army. Led by Leyla Ahmed, the rebels demand Kurdish prisoners be released from Turkey in return for hostages.

Disgraced MP Hampton Wilder's memoirs, written whilst in prison, could create a scandal big enough to bring down the government - and the manuscript has gone missing. As Tom and his team try to distinguish fact from fiction, an ex-KGB spy is murdered and the manuscript is mysteriously leaked to the press. Tom begins to wonder who's really pulling the strings in this operation.