The Whitehall Sanction | Jack Gerson | Kharidobechobooks

The story follows James Ryder, a ordinary London antiques dealer. His mundane life spirals into a absolute nightmare after he offers a casual car lift to a stranded investigative journalist named Nora Matheson

Nora abruptly disappears during an interview, and her primary informant is suddenly found dead—stuffed directly into the boot of Ryder's car. 

Targeted by shadowy forces who believe he knows too much, Ryder faces a terrifying gauntlet of being chased, drugged, and finding a bomb attached to his vehicle. To survive, he must piece together a massive, high-level conspiracy involving an intelligence agency gone completely rogue and corrupt politicians. 

Gerson brilliantly sets the book against a gritty backdrop of a decaying, cynical 1980s London burdened by social division and economic chaos.