The Partridge Kite

A powerful blast blows away a bank wall and five innocent people and 4,250,000 in gold bars disappear.

A coolly-plotted assassination seems accidental, as a militant left-wing labor leader, on the eve of a paralyzing national strike, takes a fatal fall down the world's longest escalator.

Off the Yorkshire coast, an oil rig the size of a football field is firebombed and totally destroyed.

The UK suffers blindly under a series of tragedies with no visible link.

Then, a defector appears at Cannon Row police station and spells out the threat from the sinister group CORDON a right-wing takeover of Great Britain is imminent. Only 12 days remain.

The Prime Minister orders his intelligence chief to recruit a new agent. The assignment: stop CORDON, no one can be trusted. CORDON has penetrated every level.

From its top secret files, the Special State operations department pulls a dossier on Tom McCullin. A case-hardened former...