Nominated for the Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America!
A brilliant combine of international assassins had gathered on the sunny shores of Alba. Interpol had no clue to their plans, so Peter Carthage, WAR, INC’s top agent is sent to infiltrate and destroy the threat — and tangles with a strange irreligious order of violent monks! As Carthage learns the sinister secret of the monastery, he finds himself in the middle of the greatest coup in the history of crime!
In the late 1960s, the Cold War threatened to recolor the world map. To keep the uneasy peace a new group of mercenaries was born: Weapons Analysis and Research, Incorporated. The consultants were carefully-selected experts, such as Peter Carthage, former United States Army major in the Intelligence branch.