The Gulf War is over -- and all at the cost of a handful of allied casualties. As the West congratulates itself on the restoration of Kuwait, investigative journalist Wesley Keogh begins to rake over the war's dying embers, discovering the story of the decade. That the war may have been fought to a pre-arranged script. That the West's finest hour may well have been a sham. Alerted to Keogh's investigations, MI5 despatch a young MI5 agent -- Sarah Moreton -- to rein him in. But what kind of pressure can you exert on a man who is already dying of Aids?