Táto séria sleduje osudy umeleckého profesora, ktorý vedie dvojitý život ako nájomný vrah pre americkú vládu. Prepletá sa svetom umenia a nebezpečných tajných misií, kde každá akcia má ďalekosiahle následky. Napätie, intríg a morálne dilemy sú tu na dennom poriadku.
Meet Jonathan Hemlock. He has a renovated Gothic church on Long Island for his home, he teaches art, climbs mountains, and performs assassinations (sanctions) to get money to augment his fabulous collection of art masterpieces purchased in the black market. Against his will he is tricked into a most hazardous sanction assignment that involves an attempt to conquer and scale on of the most treacherous mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps, the Eiger.
Art collector and freelance assassin Jonathan Hemlock is plunged into terror and violence when he attempts to secure provocative films that incriminate high-ranking British officials and that are being used as part of a chilling conspiracy of blackmail and political assassination with ties to the most exclusive levels of the London art world. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
The scene is London, where Jonathan Hemlock is blackmailed into performing another "sanction" -- a top-secret political assassination -- in a nerve-wracking web involving dirty dealings among high-ranking British government officials and a British counterespionage group. Once again Hemlock's life hangs in the balance -- but this time the game is deadlier, the penalty for failure more grotesquely lethal than ever before!