intelligence officers

American counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp rushes to pull the world back from the brink of nuclear war when Iran blames the U.S. and Israel for an attack that has left a radioactive bomb and environmental disaster in the middle of Iran's second largest city.

The death of a journalist leads Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He's playing by Moscow rules now. Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union, is an arms dealer and he is about to deliver Russia's most sophisticated weapons to al- Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11 and the clock is ticking fast.

Draws on real-world crises and actual CIA operations to explore a new and unreported covert warfare that is being fought around the world, tracking CIA case officer Tom Stafford as he tries to neutralize a deadly al-Qa'ida bombmaker before he can launch multiple attacks against American and the West.

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.

CIA operative Tommy Carmellini is forced to run for his life when he is sent to post guard duty at a West Virginia safehouse where a KGB defector is being debriefed, and arrives to find the place under attack by American commandos.

Niema Burdock has not seen secret government agent John Medina since the mission that resulted in her husband's death five years ago, when he recruits her to help take down an arms-broker they find the passion between them as explosive as the situation.

Mitch Rapp, an elite counterterrorism operative, deals with the political uproar after a series of explosions devastates Washington, D. C., and must track down the three al-Qaida terrorists that are still at large, with help from Mike Nash, a trusted teammate who is mentally shaken after the attacks.