Scotlandin the 21st Century and a reality far removed from bagpipes, whiskyand the tartan clad heroes of yesteryear.
TommyCampbell’s business The Umbrella Companyis a front for his criminal empire. And its profits are to be used to build upa secret army to overthrow British rule in Scotland.
RobCampbell and Andra Campbell worshiped Tommy, their elder cousin, as children.They follow him as adults into an underground world of illegal drugdistribution and people smuggling with its attendant horrors of corruption andmurder.
TwoScottish Police Special Branch sergeants, Billy McIntyre and Charlie MacDonnell, are looking into thedisappearance of two policewomen on duty in the wild Scottish Highlands. Their investigationsin Scotland and Australia bring them closer and closer to uncovering TheUmbrella Company’s criminal activities.
TommyCampbell’s ambition to lead the fight for an independent Scotland fades withhis growing love of the money and power that the Umbrella Company brings him.Rob Campbell’s alcoholism leads him to Australia and a soul mate. AndraCampbell is sent to the Golden Triangle in search of a stable drug supply forThe Umbrella Company’s Australian operation. Here his marriage to the gentle Aun,daughterof a Thai drug lord, leads him to question his role as the Company’s assassin.
But it is the Campbell women, wives, daughters andsweethearts led by Rob’s sister Sandy Campbell who insist that the originalaims of The Umbrella Company be followed through. They unleash a conflict inScotland that matches anything in its bloody past.
Astory of love and betrayal of love. And most dangerous of all – the obsessive loveof one’s country.
