Alex Rider for a new generation. When Zac and the other agents of Python infiltrate an exclusive birthday party on Italy's Amalfi Coast, they expect to be laying low and gathering intelligence. Instead, they find themselves wrapped up in a plot to murder the guest of honour. Stuck between two rival families, Zac, Jameela, Ted and Nikos must identify and stop the potential killer before midnight, or risk triggering an all-out gang war. But with danger closing in and secrets threatening to tear the team apart, completing this mission may cost Zac everything . even his life? The second book in the action-packed new spy series.