The Grand Master of Deception is a continuation of the CAUL series wherein James Markham's romance with Jennifer, the identical twin sister of his deceased CIA partner, is interrupted by a foreign master counterintelligence plot that takes Markham to the Far East and a place hidden from the world in the mountains of North China where he learns the secret of enlightenment and a method of defeating his captor's counterintelligence plans.

The rejection of a man's unrequited love for a woman residing in Montreal, Canada drives him into a catatonic state from which he recovers but without any memory of her. This arouses her love previously suppressed by fear of commitment and familial influence. In an effort to regain his love, she follows him to Paris, France where he is engaged in a counterintelligence mission with the CIA, but she succeeds only in obtaining a promise from him to call her when he returns to the United States. However, upon his return and visit, he learns that, due to her family attachments and business, she...