"A fight in a Liverpool pub wrecks it all for Azo Coke, a pizza-delivery man and petty delinquent. He’s staring at jail time and they will not let him see his little boy, Ali.
Azo knows how a boy needs a dad - his own left when he was a child and he has felt lost ever since.
But on the night Azo is arrested, the shadowy spymaster Paterson walks into his cell. Work for me, Paterson says, and I will wipe your slate clean. The job: spying on a gang of violent extremists, led by Raz, a sadistic mercenary-turned-arms dealer.
Raz has gathered a squad of homeless misfits under his roof and is training them for an attack - among them Maya, a disturbed hacker on the run for bank fraud. Azo falls in love with her - but Paterson has plans for Maya too."