For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it is 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 be married...

As 1997 approaches, England's prime minister learns of a secret document signed by Mao Tse-tung that could delay the Chinese takeover of Hong Kong for an additional 100 years. The British hire former terrorist Sean Dillon to keep the document from coming to light, before parties in Hong Kong retrieve it and destroy the balance of world power.

Blake Johnson travels to Kosovo on a mission assigned by the U.S. President. Major Harry Miller is there on a similar mission for the Prime Minister of Great Britain. When Miller intervenes with a group of soldiers planning a vicious act, their leader is killed, setting off an explosive series of events whose conclusion is very much in doubt.

Former allies in the IRA, Sean Dillon and Martin Brosnan have chosen different paths. Now Dillon is a terrorist for hire, a master of disguise employed by Saddam Hussein. Brosnan is the one man who knows Dillon's strengths and weaknesses--and brilliant mastery of espionage. Once friends, now enemies, they are playing the deadliest game of their careers. A game that culminates in a frightening -- and true -- event: Iraq's attempted mortar attack on...

"In the past few years, the killing and capture of many Al-Qaeda leaders has left the terrorist organization wounded--but by no means dead. And they intend to prove it. On a dark summer night, two Chechen mercenaries emerge from the waters off Nantucket to kill a high-value target, the former president of the United States, Jake Cazalet. Unfortunately for them, Cazalet has guests with him, including black ops specialist Sean Dillon and his colleague,...

In Russia, Alexander Kurbsky is both an infamous writer and an ex-paratrooper. Disappointed with the current government, he makes plans with Sean Dillon, Charles Furguson, and members of the Prime Minister's private army to help him disappear into the West, even though many before him have died when attempting this journey.

Intelligence operative Sean Dillon and his colleagues in Britain and the United States beat back a terrible enemy, but at an equally terrible cost. One of them was shot, another run down in the street. Both were expected to survive-but only one of them does.

The powerful and fabulously wealthy Rashid family is down but not out. British agent Sean Dillon and his associates killed the three Rashid brothers, who were attempting to assassinate the President of the United States. But Kate Rashid has taken up the reins and has wicked plans of her own -- including Dillon's demise and a devastating interruption of the world's oil supply.

In 1992, the wreck of Nazi leader Martin Bormann's submarine is discovered in the Caribbean, along with a secret list of Nazi sympathizers. The names include high-level citizens from the U.S. and Great Britain, but the evidence is at the bottom of the sea. The British government turns to its greatest enemy for help, infamous terrorist Sean Dillon.

The Rashid family, half British, half Arab, is directing its rage against the United States, whose president they hold responsible for a series of attacks against their power and honor. From opposite ends of the world, hints are picked up by Blake Johnson, head of the clandestine White House operation known as the Basement, and his Irish colleague, Sean Dillon, but hints to what and by whom?