The death of a French intelligence agent on an Air France flight to Amman, Jordan, is the trigger that launches Tommy Carmellini's latest adventure. Within the European Union, the national espionage agencies are fiercely competing for supremacy against each other-and against the CIA. When the Americans discover that the director of the French spy agency has secret investments in the Bank of Palestine, alarm bells go off. To investigate, the Americans...

CIA operative Tommy Carmellini is sent to a farmhouse in Virginia, where a top KGB defector is being debriefed under heavy guard. He arrives to find the defector and the guards dead, and a team of American commandos setting fire to the house in an operation undertaken so quickly that he suspects they had inside knowledge. A narrow escape with the beautiful and mysterious translator is just the beginning of the search for answers.

This time, for Admiral Jake Grafton, the stakes are chillingly personal... Admiral Jake Grafton takes his wife, Callie, along when the U.S. government sends him to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the American consul-general is embedded in political money raising scandal. And why not? Jake and Callie met and fell in love in Hong Kong during the Vietnam War, and the consul-general is a friend from those days. The Graftons quickly discover, however,...