Agent John Mordred gets a nasty shock when he finds himself touted in the press as one of ten potential "Ultimate Londoners". Especially given that he's spent his entire adult life trying to pass beneath the radar of just about anyone with a camera or a microphone. Yet with a five million pound first prize at stake, plus an awards ceremony on the top floor of The Gherkin, it's clearly no joke.
MI7 looks into it as a matter of urgency, and things go from strange to stranger. For a start, no one in the mainstream media or elsewhere has the faintest idea where it originated. And not even the 'candidates' themselves know how they were selected.
For Mordred, the unsolicited exposure is profoundly unwelcome. But maybe that's the whole idea.
So far, so irritating. And inconvenient.
Then the candidates start dying.
As Mordred investigates, the truth slowly emerges. And it's weirder and more deadly than anyone could possibly have imagined.
