When international news correspondent Bob Newman gets a tip-off about a mysterious package smuggled across an eastern border, it’s yet another link in a chain of sinister incidents that have one thing in common – they are all connected with the Berne Clinic and Terminal.

          But what is Terminal? And why are the British SIS so desperate to find out? What is an ex-CIA hit-man turned private investigator doing in Switzerland? And who is he working for? What terrible secret lies behind the barbed wire surrounding the Berne Clinic, guarded by Dobermans and the Swiss Army? And why do the people who can answer these questions keep getting murdered?