"Getting in is unlikely. It takes money, influence, and superhuman cunning. Staying in is risky. It means submitting to an increibly bizarre variety of sadistic sexual appetites. Getting out is suicide. Membership is for life, and attempting to quit means being hunted down and slaughtered like an animal. Destroying it is impossible. It's made up of the wealthiest and most powerful figures in Britain. Yet John Gail was expected to accomplish each of these tasks - alone. At stake was the life of another agent - and the structure of civilized government."