Frank Pagan is escorting the deadly terrorist, Gunther Ruhr, known as the Claw, when members of Ruhr's gang attacks the convoy and violently free the terrorist. Pagan is left close to death but with an intense determination to recapture Ruhr or see him dead.
The assassin Jig was gaining a tremendous reputation as an IRA killer who never missed and who was never seen. It is the of Frank Pagan to catch him. Soon, though, another, stronger terror presents itself and Pagan and Jig find they must work together to destroy it.
For Frank Pagan of Scotland Yard, it begins with the daylight murder of a Russian at crowded Waverley Station, Edinburgh, Scotland. From that moment on, Pagan's life becomes an ever-darkening nightmare, as he follows the thread of a brutal murder everyone wants to forget. With the help of Kristi...