Just missing service in World War II, young Gus Kennedy takes a job with the British Palestine Police, as a welcome break from engineering work in 1940s Dundee. Gus finishes training as a top gun and is selected for special duties. This involves hunting down Jewish terrorists - aka freedom fighters - in the Irgun and Stern Gangs who made life hell during the British Mandate. Ambushes, stake-outs, blow-ups and plain retaliatory murder are the order of the day on both sides. We join Gus, Taffy, Marra and other `ghost squad` hit men as they track down the enemy - and take no prisoners. Gus makes it through in one piece (many didn`t), and here is his story. It may be fiction, but it has the raw edge of truth. This no-holds-barred novel is based on fact - an almost forgotten slice of Middle Eastern history, when British armed forces and police were in the firing line, as the State of Israel arose from the dust of war.