As the 21st Century dawns, a career as a British Government's deeply covert MI-4 field agent would test the bravest and most resilient. Philippa Ploughman is swept into counter-terrorism normally thought of as a male dominated preserve. Annually, billions of dollars are generated by illegal drugs, in America and the Middle East. The United States and Canada are vulnerable to narcotics flooding from South America while an estimated 85% of all Afghanistan poppy narcotics arrive overland in Europe. Is there a thread of international money laundering between the two in a global weapons trade? Into this world is thrust an amiable, vulnerable, unlikely form capable of switching from femininity to vigorous self defence in the blink of an eye or the flash of weapon's test.The lady has been launched to find the truth. And now that the UN Security Council's deadline for Iran to halt its work on nuclear fuel enrichment has been ignored, things are set to become more challenging...

Makepiece Ploughman is of the ninth generation on original warranted land in Maryland granted to the 17th Century immigrant Ploughman family. In 1943, he is a colonel in the US Army Air Corps, working an intelligence desk assigned to understand Hitler's advanced weapons programme. Under Presidential decree, he is given command of a reconnaissance aircraft group to operate from an airfield in Kent, England, which is subject to unremitting enemy threat. Where once stood the family residential hall, there now stands an Anglo-American facility which contains Colonel Ploughman's top secret buried headquarters. On one of his infrequent days of relaxation, Makepiece seeks out family history records in the country archives only to discover that he is not the only researcher with an interest in a folio of 350 year old papers written by his eleven greats grandmother. The folder in the Maidstone archive contains a transcription of 1659 original land warrant, And war has taken the colonel a long way from the comforts of home...This is the fifth novel in the Warranted Land Saga.

The 19th century independent United States of America has its own strengths. But have the relationships with England really settled down. While Benjamin Ploughman's loyalty to the English Crown takes him from Maryland to the East Indies, the Royal Navy suffers its gravest mutiny and his family continues to forges its heritage within a new world beset with major changes. Fifth generation immigrant Ada looks on as President Madison declares war on England and she is fortunate to survive the consequences. An invitation from England to become the chatelaine of the ancient Hall at Snodland, Kent where the Ploughman heritage began, may not be all it seems - This is the fourth novel in the Warranted Land saga.