Perception manager Dick Pender is asked by arms dealer Nicolas Creel to create a lie that will convince the world it is on the brink of war, and sets in motion a chain of events that will link three strangers and bring the world to the edge of destruction.

Presents information about men and women spies throughout history as well as about the tools and equipment they used in espionage and intelligence service.

Nicholas Bryson, a former operative for the American secret intelligence group the Directorate, is forced to rely on his rusty skills and unreliable contacts for help when he is recruited years after his retirement by the CIA to infiltrate the group which Bryson has just learned was working against the best interests of the country.

Twin boys Harry and Max Kelso are separated at the age of twelve when their parents divorce, leaving Harry in the U.S. with his father and sending Max to live in Germany with his mother, but the two meet again in the early days of World War II, this time as pilots on opposite sides of the conflict.

"The new Sean Dillon novel, a knife-edge story of terrorism and revenge, by "the dean of intrigue novelists" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). "The bell tolls at midnight as death requires it." In Washington, D.C., on a night full of rain, a woman is struck down and killed by a hit-and-run driver. But she is not just any woman--she is the assistant to the head of the secret White House department known only as the Basement. And she had secrets of her own....

Cabrillo, chasing the remnants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, stumbles upon a shocking revelation that leads him in search of an ancient Chinese expedition--and a curse that seems to have survived for more than five hundred years.

Counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp must fight to save his own life when the powerful father of a dead terrorist, set on vengeance, makes him the target of an international conspiracy.