Nessa Stein's whose father used to be a Zionist arms procurer as she she and her brother were growing up they saw his sleepytime. As an adult, she has inherited her father's company and she dramatically changes its purpose from supplying arms to laying high-spec data cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank. After being being appointed to the House of Lords it creates an international political maelstrom.

With the hunt on for Atika's son, the head of MI6's Middle East desk, Sir Hugh Hayden-Hoyle, starts to look into whohuged Meshal and why, leading him to be blocked from any further line of enquiry by his boss, Dame Julia Walsh, on the instructions of the CIA. However, Julia tells him to look in a different direction, which means turning his attention to Nessa. As more of Nessa's past is uncovered, including how she and Atika were kidnapped eight years before in Gaza, Nessa receives a mysterious phone call from a man who threatens to divulge secrets from this time in her past.

The mysterious phone calls to Nessa become more frequent and she is threatened with kidnapped child Kasim's safety unless she does whatever is asked of her. Shlomo Zahary has been rejected by Nessa as a future business partner is she thinks she has found corruption in his past, a charge he rejects.

We follow a younger Hayden Hoyle as he makes his way to the top of the spy business, by sleeping with MI6 chief Dame Julia Walsh. Julia double crosses Hayden when a pact is revealed between her and the ambitious Monica Chatwin. Flashbacks also show how Ephra manages to control the Stein empire and Nessa's abduction in Gaza.

Nessa finds out a secret which Atika has kept from her and feels a deep betrayal. At a University in Israel a computer science professor learns about a corrupt admissions policy in which Arab students are being denied places on courses in favour of students from Israel.

Nessa finds out that it was Ephra who ordered the wiretap whilst Kasim's life hangs in the balance as a new Palestinian businessman, Jalal El-Amin, wants a partnership in Nessa's data cabling business in return for his safety.

Hayden-Hoyle uncovers an international government cover-up in relation to the Stein wiretap and Ephra is drawn into making a fatal mistake. In Palestine, an act of terrorism stuns the Stein family and the wider international community and has far reaching repercussions.

Hayden-Hoyle uncovers that Nessa has been manipulated both by people close to her and by governments intent on exploiting her work. A thrilling climax in the desert wastelands sees Nessa fighting to save her life and the kidnapped child's as she attempts to make her way home.