When an execution is sanctioned in the UK for the first time in almost 50 years, it soon becomes a media circus. The television rights are sold, and it becomes the worlds biggest reality TV show, re-branded as X-Day.

Two workmen take a tea-break that they will never forget.

A man jumps from a building to end his life, this action sets of a chain of events, with a group of Town's folk that wish to achieve their greedy aims.

Atlas is an exclusive business training course run by father and son team Paul and Ryan Rand. They are based in a large mansion house in the country, just outside Edenton village. They like to present an air of exclusivity and respectability, but their controversial training methods have brought them unwanted attention. Accusations abound that they have been employing abusive training techniques. As Jenks investigates he discovers further information linking Atlas to previous suicides and witnesses some of their bizarre training exercises. Then when he meets a disturbed former student things begin to look even darker. Atlas training techniques appear to be causing real psychological damage. Jenks gradually reveals occult practices, psychological manipulation and physical abuse, all behind the mask of a legitimate business training course.