Beyond the Autumn

A death on the London Underground leads to the discovery in the dead man's bag of a severed human hand. Clutched in it is a note warning the female journalist to whom it's addressed: 'you need to back off so let us give you a hand.' When the journalist disappears her editor enlists her ex-boyfriend - a former soldier and journalist still suffering from his physical and mental wounds - to help find her and protect her. And so begins a race against time from London to the Persian Gulf to the Philippines to find her before the powerful men with fortunes and reputations to lose can reach her - and silence her - first.