CIA assassin Connor Fitzgerald, only days from retirement, finds his life threatened by a dangerous enemy from inside the agency, while at the same time, a new Russian president is trying to force a military confrontation with the United States.
Newspaper moguls Richard Armstrong and Keith Townsend, one in Europe and the other Australia, find themselves on the verge of ruin when their ambitions collide and their profits fall.
A novel based on the life of famed British climber George Mallory,who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924, last seen several hundred feet from the summit.
