SAS Sergeant Geordie Sharp is required to undertake two top-secret missions, in the full knowledge that if they go wrong the authorities will deny all involvement In the first, he commands a hit team on a Black (100 per cent non-attributive) task assigned to the SAW, the ultra-secret Subversive Action Wing Their target is an Iraqi who defected to Libya after the Gulf War The aim is to kill him and leave no clues as to the identity or origin of the assassins The hit team will have to be absolutely clean - wear Arab clothes, use Soviet weapons and ammunition, and bear no trace of any Western organisation