War veteran Harry Brown has a nose for trouble, and he smells something nasty in the air when he witnesses a vicious mugging in a Beijing underpass… Ex-soldier Harry Brown is an expert in crisis management and disaster planning. He is at a conference in China touting for business when he stumbles on a vicious mugging in a Beijing underpass. He wades in, punches the attackers senseless and rescues the victim. Harry later finds a memory stick planted in his jacket pocket. And soon a feisty young journalist called Lisa Tang comes knocking on his door. Together they smell something deadlier than the Beijing smog... What is the awful secret they uncover in the remote village where the victim lived? What is the real motive behind a businessman’s bid to revolutionise China’s rural economy? How can Harry and Lisa survive efforts to terminate their investigations – if not their lives?

A severed hand is found in a field in Germany. The consequences will reach from war-torn Afghanistan to the highest levels of government. Ex-army officer Harry Brown has been conducting a disaster planning exercise at an airport in northern Germany. On his way there one morning he passes a car being driven by single mum Ingrid Weber. Glancing after her in his rearview mirror, Harry sees her car swerve and crash. When he discovers what caused her to crash was a grisly human body part, all the old training and instincts kick in. Before he knows it, he and Ingrid are on a trail that leads them ever deeper into a quagmire of greed and corruption as they begin to piece together a chilling chain of events. Soon it seems that everyone wants them dead. From the flat north German plain to the summit of the Zugspitze in the Bavarian Alps, Harry and Ingrid are running for their lives.