After investigation came retribution, vindictive and indiscriminate. It’s the early 1980s and the height of the Cold War when Steve Donovan, despite a checkered past, troubled marriage, and no prospects, lands a job at the very bottom of the intelligence world. He finds a kind of happiness...

"I’ve never known Mack to make a threat he was not prepared to carry out,” I said carefully. “He doesn’t bluff." Frank Cardova provides logistic support for a highly effective team of deadly operatives known as Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by Western...

I wondered what crime a professional killer could commit that his closest friends would find unforgivable. It is the mid-1980s and Barbara Kemp shatters another glass ceiling as she becomes the US babysitter for Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by Western governments for...