Martin Broson is recruited by British Intelligence to catch a master terrorist whose goal is to launch a mortar against the War Cabinet at a meeting at 10 Downing Street.

In 1985, the mysterious Martin Keogh participates in the unsuccessful hijacking attempt of millions of pounds of gold bullion by Irish Protestant paramilitaries. Ten years later, Keogh, now known as Sean Dillon, a British intelligence agent, is called upon when a plot to retreive the lost gold threatens the peace process in Ireland.

Someone is killing members of the Sons of Erin. The unknown assassin must be stopped before governments fall and the Irish peace process is stopped.

American President Jake Cazalet's career is threatened when a diary that belonged to Hitler turns up, revealing the details of a meeting in which Hitler and Roosevelt planned to join forces and turn against the Soviet Union, and implicating someone close to Cazalet, so White House operative Blake Johnson is called in to destroy the diary before it can be used against the president.

Dispatched by the President to report on the state of still troubled Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake Johnson runs into a military man there named Harry Miller, who has the same task from the British Prime Minister. They band together just in time to stop a Russian officer from torching a mosque--or rather, Miller stops him, with a bullet to the forehead. This action will have considerable consequences, not only for Miller and Johnson and their associates,...

On Long Island, a trusted operative for the President nudges his boat up to a pier, when a man materializes out of the rain and shoots him. In London, General Charles Ferguson, adviser to the Prime Minister, approaches his car on a side street, when there is a flash, and the car explodes. In New York, a former British soldier, who is also a bit more than that, takes a short walk in Central Park to stretch his legs, when a man comes up fast behind...

"A devil is indeed waiting. The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise. Urgently, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the "Prime Minister's private army" are called in, augmented by an extraordinary...

"In the past few years, the killing and capture of many Al-Qaeda leaders has left the terrorist organization wounded--but by no means dead. And they intend to prove it. On a dark summer night, two Chechen mercenaries emerge from the waters off Nantucket to kill a high-value target, the former president of the United States, Jake Cazalet. Unfortunately for them, Cazalet has guests with him, including black ops specialist Sean Dillon and his colleague,...