CIA chief analyst for Soviet Activities Wallace Mahoney is tasked with finding a missing Russian laser before the American president arrives in Moscow for a diplomatic visit. Under dubious orders, Mahoney must work with KGB agents to find the missing weapon in a race against time.

It begins in Buenos Aires where two men lay dead, each the victim of a gruesome attack. it continues in the United States, where Dr. Richard Kelsey is brought a patients who may hold the key to solving the crimes. Dr. Kelsey's life is turned upside down as he is sucked into a bizarre conspiracy, one that may threaten the political stability of the free world.

A retired CIA agent searches for an enemy spy that has infiltrated the Israeli intelligence service and uncovers a deadly secret

THE SHADOW WAR—General Sir Robert Marshall is missing. So is NATO's top secret Genesis Plan. — CIA agent Wallace Mahoney has a choice: find the missing chairman of NATO's Nuclear Defense Affairs Committee. Or watch a European country disappear. — CIA agent John Mahoney also has a choice: watch his father go solo on his deadliest, and perhaps final mission. Or plunge with him into a bloody maze of terror that leads far beyond the Soviet threat.

Wallace Mahoney was officially dead—of suspicious causes on an Israeli airliner. His son, John, saw his corpse—and vowed vengeance on whomever had killed the most brilliant operative the CIA had ever had. That was the beginning. Before the global terror trip reached its bloody climax, John Mahoney would discover that in the world of undercover savagery, both U.S. and Russia faced a foe even more powerful than each other. No one could be trusted and nothing was what it seemed. Not even death.

When a Russian courier is gunned down in Helsinki, CIA agent Jack Horn becomes entangled in a complicated web of intrigue, involving a clandestine love affair, a defection plot, and betrayal

Retired CIA agent Wallace Mahoney finds himself in an uncomfortable alliance with Chernov the KGB agent who ordered the murder of Mahoney's wife, when the Soviet agent uncovers a plot with deadly global implications