A terrorist bomb destroys a corporate jet, and a reluctant Conor Gifford, the Chief of the Office of Special Investigations, is thrust into an investigation that takes him to picturesque but bloody Kashmir where he is greeted with disdain and encouraged to withdraw. With a solitary Indian Special Branch shadow as his only companion, Gif stubbornly ignores the advice and warnings of competing Indian and American investigators and eventually follows a trail that takes him to Karachi, Islamabad and Reston, Virginia. Gif uncovers two vital clues which he turns over to the FBI investigative team....

FBI Deputy Director Richard Thatcher clashes with Senator Judy Gonzales of the Senate Judiciary Committee. That night, Gonzales dies, the first victim of a serial killer whose reign of terror provokes a national crisis.

BI Deputy Director Richard Thatcher clashes with Senator Judy Gonzales of the Senate Judiciary Committee. That night, Gonzales dies, the first victim of a serial killer whose reign of terror provokes a national crisis.

The murder of a college professor and the kidnapping of the Secretary of Homeland Security lead to a national crisis involving foreign agents and parallel investigations by a FBI Special Agent and a Fairfax Detective with contrasting styles. Robert L Skidmore is the author of twenty-two novels.

The murder of a college professor and the kidnapping of the Secretary of Homeland Security lead to a national crisis involving foreign agents and parallel investigations by a FBI Special Agent and a Fairfax Detective with contrasting styles. Robert L Skidmore is the author of twenty-two novels.

A prominent foreign correspondent takes a sabbatical, attempts to write a magnum opus, stalls, and is enticed into an assignment that implicates him in espionage, multiple murders, and the competition for a Pulitzer Prize. It all begins when his fiancee dumps him without warning.