In 1985, the mysterious Martin Keogh participates in the unsuccessful hijacking attempt of millions of pounds of gold bullion by Irish Protestant paramilitaries. Ten years later, Keogh, now known as Sean Dillon, a British intelligence agent, is called upon when a plot to retreive the lost gold threatens the peace process in Ireland.

As Hong Kong prepares for Chinese takeover in 1997 powerful forces search for the lost Chungking Covenant that would keep Hong Kong under British rule for another hundred years.

Dispatched by the President to report on the state of still troubled Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake Johnson runs into a military man there named Harry Miller, who has the same task from the British Prime Minister. They band together just in time to stop a Russian officer from torching a mosque--or rather, Miller stops him, with a bullet to the forehead. This action will have considerable consequences, not only for Miller and Johnson and their associates,...

An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can't stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. He would run if he could, but if he does, his family dies. He is desperate; he doesn't know what to do. It is up to Sean Dillon and the rest of the small band known as the Prime Minister's private army to think of a plan. Most particularly, it is up to their newest member, an intelligence captain...

In the waning days of World War II, Hitler gave his diary to a young aide for safekeeping. Now it's threatening to resurface, with explosive contents: the details of a meeting between emissaries of Hitler and Roosevelt to reach an armistice and turn their collective efforts against the Soviet Union. The American representative: a close relative of none other than the current President, Jake Cazalet. Powerful enemies of Cazalet will do anything to...

A young widow, Sarah Talbot, is determined to uncover the suspicious circumstances surrounding her beloved stepson's murder.

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,...

Someone is killing members of splinter group, Sons of Erin. Normally not a major concern but this could lead to the fall of two governments and the derailing of the Irish peace process. Sean Dillon and Blake Johnson join forces to stop the assassin.