Sanction — William Hunter

A distinguished professor has been murdered at the University of Cambridge. Sean Garrett, a witness to the shooting, is on the run from an assassin looking to cover his tracks, and authorities who believe he is the killer. Banastre Montjoy, a burned-out head of section at the Secret Intelligence Service, is in a race himself to discover who was behind the bombing of the London Underground a year earlier. His nemesis, the diminutive and scheming Berwyn Rees, seeks to drum Montjoy out of MI6, while positioning himself to become deputy chief. As Scotland Yard and the CIA close in on Garrett, Montjoy uncovers a devastating secret, one that someone inside the British government has sought to keep buried since World War II.