Two years ago, SAS hard man Simon Tabor got away with murder. Tabor prefers to call it retribution – retribution for the brutal rape and killing of his younger sister in a brothel on the Costa Del Sol.

Now he’s been unofficially drafted in by the Met police to help in a new murder enquiry. A young girl has washed up on an English beach with an intricate orchid tattooed on her groin – a similar design to one discovered on his dead sister.

While Romanian brothel owners are being ritually slaughtered around Britain, and in Spain a millionaire orchid expert nears the end of a sinister experiment in bioengineering, Tabor begins to see a pattern emerging. The pattern’s key is the tattoo. The tattoo marks the death of mankind as we know it.