It is September 2002 and a celebrated investigative reporter is murdered at BBC headquarters in London moments before he was going to broadcast an explosive story about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. A coded message hidden in the lyrics of a thirty-year old song hides a shocking secret connecting this with man first setting foot on the moon.

An innocent chat at a baggage carousel at Prague airport catapults music journalist Jack Conrad into a race against time to decipher the secret of this song. He is immediately plunged into a murky world of counter-intelligence, international security, misinformation and extreme violence, surviving various attempts on his life through his own unpredictable behaviour.

His urgent quest takes him from Europe to the Saudi Arabian desert and ends in Seattle while key witnesses meet sudden, apparently accidental or self-inflicted deaths. Conrad’s resilience and determination in the face of overwhelming adversity reveals a sinister global network and uncovers two previously unsuspected high-profile murders.

If you liked 'The Sigma Protocol' by Robert Ludlum, you're going to love this.

And if you have ever doubted, for a moment, what you are told on the News or see in the papers, then you have to read 'The Shape of Rain'.