"A murderous vendetta places at stake not only lives, but the fate of nations."--Book jacket.

Blake Johnson, head of the secret White House intelligence department known as The Basement, and British operative Sean Dillon team up to discover who is killing off the members of a splinter terrorist group known as the Sons of Erin, and in the process disrupting the Irish peace process.

On Long Island, a trusted operative for the president nudges his boat up to a pier, when a man materializes out of the rain and shoots him. In London, General Charles Ferguson, adviser to the prime minister, approaches his car on a side street, when there is a flash and the car explodes. In New York, a former British soldier, who is also a bit more than that, takes a short walk in Central Park to stretch his legs, when a man comes up fast behind him,...

A famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper named Alexander Kurbsky is fed up with the Putin government and decides he wants to d́isappear ́into the West. He is under no illusions, however, about how the news will be greeted at home, having seen too many of his countrymen die mysteriously at the hands of the thuggish Russian security services, so he makes elaborate plans with Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon, and the rest of the group known informally...

For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it begins with a routine passport check. But the events it will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known. The man he stops at Heathrow Airport is Caspar Rashid, born and bred in England but with family ties to a Bedouin tribe fiercely wedded to the old ways, as Rashid has just found out to his pain. His thirteen-year-old daughter, Sara, has been kidnapped by Rashid's own father and taken to Iraq to...

American Colonel Kelso, aware of the most crucial secret of the war, must be snatched from under the Germans' noses-or else ruthlessly silenced. A variety of characters become involved in Kelso's rescue from German occupied Jersey.