He appears to be the reincarnation of a dead British secret agent. His knowledge is that of a grown man, Matthew Hyde, who disappeared in China's Sinkiang province whilst investigating the links between Iraqi nuclear scientists and Chinese research bases. Somewhere there is a massive conspiracy to supply Saddam Hussein with a weapon against which there can be no defence.

And only the boy knows the secret.

International espionage, war, and the weaponry which feeds it, form the basis of a story encompassing fear, love, heroism and extraordinary adventure.