[Sam Archer 03] • Blackout

On a warm April night in London, a man puts the finishing touches to his work for the day. He locks up his office and prepares to leave, but on his way out his receptionist hands him a letter. She says it was hand-delivered less than an hour ago. He is surprised. What could be so important that it couldn’t wait till morning? Shrugging, he takes it with him and departs.

Inside his car outside on the street, the man opens the letter and reads the contents.

He doesn’t move for over an hour. He just stares ahead unseeingly. Then he comes to a decision. He drives home to retrieve something, and spends the rest of the night sitting on a bench by the River Thames.

And as the sun comes up, he pulls out the item he picked up at his house. It’s a handgun.

He puts it in his mouth and pulls the trigger.

Across the city, counter-terrorist cop Sam Archer arrives for work at the Armed Response Unit expecting a quiet day.

But unbeknownst to him, a storm is coming.

Three men have already been killed that morning. One committed suicide by the River Thames. Another was strangled in his car in Washington D.C. And the third was shot in the face in his high-rise New York apartment as he slept. The deaths seem random, thousands of miles apart. But they are all connected. By a shocking event fifteen years ago.

And this is just the start

Archer, Chalky and the rest of the Unit suddenly find themselves plunged into a ferocious and violent confrontation, fighting for their lives. The enemy they are up against are brutal, highly trained, well-armed and anonymous. No one knows where they have come from, or who any of them are. But they have a vendetta. They will never forgive or forget, or show mercy.

And for some reason, they are hell-bent on killing ten specific people before the end of the day.

As the Unit tries to find out who these killers are and locate the remaining targets so they can protect them, it becomes a race against time to see who can get there first. As the counter-terrorist unit and the vengeful enemy do battle all over the city, Archer and the team soon realise two things.

This is an enemy more proficient and deadly than any they have ever encountered.

And one of their own ARU men is on the extermination list.