From the bestselling author of First Blood comes a riveting novel, an astonishing story of fierce loyalty and violent betrayal, of murders planned and coolly executed, of revenge bitterly, urgently desired. "Impossible to put it down".--San Francisco Chronicle.

From the bestselling author of First Blood comes a riveting novel, an astonishing story of fierce loyalty and violent betrayal, of murders planned and coolly executed, of revenge bitterly, urgently desired. "Impossible to put it down".--San Francisco Chronicle.

"Riveting...Crackling...It really moves."

WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

They were orphans, Chris and Saul--raised in a Philadelphia school for boys, bonded by friendship, and devoted to a mysterious man called Eliot. He visited them and brought them candy. He treated them like sons. He trained them to be assassins. Now he is trying desperately to have them killed.

Spanning the globe, here is an astonishing novel of fierce loyalty and violent betrayal, of murders planned and coolly executed, of revenge bitterly, urgently desired.