Metropolitan Police Sergeant Xavier Baxter's life has just ended - and has just begun. Presumed dead by everyone who knows him, he's been involuntarily recruited into a secret government organisation calling itself The Attic.Now Xavier is part of a ground-breaking experiment into augmented intelligence. A crack team of geniuses have given him incredible mind-expanding abilities. But is he in control of his own head anymore?Before he has a chance to find out, The Attic throws him into an investigation, the likes of which he has never known. Someone inside MI6 is turning British agents over to the Russians, and Xavier must discover who.Time and a hidden enemy are against him as he races to prove his worth before The Attic ends its experiment - and Xavier's life.