Freelance journalist Willie Morton is tasked with finding Luke Sangster, a hacker on the run from Britain's secret police.He's tagged in to a game of cat and mouse from the lunar landscapes of Assynt to Glasgow and across the North Sea illegally to Denmark.

But Morton cannot work out where Sangster's loyalties truly lie. He begins to suspect he is being entangled in an entrapment exercise to spread suspicion and distrust amongst the Independence movement. As they travel through Sweden's remote forests, he learns the truth, but by then it is almost too late...

Oblivion's Ghost haunts a shadow world of ambivalent loyalties where spooks and support agents deploy ever more controversial tactics against Scottish dissidents.