A young Oxford graduate with a gift for languages joins MI5 and is then seconded to 'A Higher Authority'. An organisation funded through government sources from around the world which nobody would admit to. Countries have to be seen to be playing it straight, and sometimes can't get at the bad guys. This is where 'The Organisation' comes in. Our hero is given the code name Jonathan to 'avoid contagion' and trained at an old British Army camp in Kenya. where he meets and falls in love with his colleague Zan, a Chinese girl. Catapulted into the world of industrial espionage their mission is to find out from the inside how a company has been able to grow at lightening speed. They find themselves embroiled in kidnapping, murder, drug running and money laundering.