Jack Higgins pits the heroic covert intelligence team of Blake Johnson
and Sean Dillon against a hidden foe in a very different kind of
game--with a very different set of rules.
It is night in Manhattan. The President of the United States is
scheduled to have dinner with an old friend, but in the building across
the street, a man has disabled the security and stands at a window, a
rifle in his hand.
Fortunately, his attempt is not successful--but this is only the
beginning. Someone is recruiting a shadowy network of agents with the
intention of creating terror. Their range is broad, their identities
masked, their methods subtle. White House operative Blake Johnson and
his opposite number in British intelligence, Sean Dillon, set out to
trace the source of the havoc, but behind the first man they find
another, and behind him another still. And that man is not pleased by
the interference. Soon he will target them all: Johnson, Dillon,
Dillon's colleagues. And one of them will fall...