The Spider Ladder

Keith Bailey, now trained and hardened by the instructors at Hereford, has yet to prove to the senior officers of MI6 that he can follow orders and be a good covert operative. In February 2011, he is sent into Gaddafi's Libya together with Graham Peterson with orders to find out where another MI6 agent is being held prisoner after a failed attempt to bring out a Libyan scientist.

Operating in one of the most hostile environments in the world, they decide to try and free the scientist as well as the agent, but – even if they succeed – is that going to be enough to convince the spymasters that they should keep Bailey in MI6?