A murderer is poisoned in his own home, a drug dealer is burned to death, a rapist eyes when the device planet in his mobile phone explodes and a PDF file is found strangled. At the scene of each of these cramps is a note it has signed messenger of the gods. The messenger of the gods, or the Mercury man as he becomes to be known as James Landers a high-trained, ex British service man. He is a mercenary. And expert killer working for a huge sum of money. But who is he paying him, and why?