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.
Jonathan Hemlock, Professor of Art, world-renowned mountain climber and freelance assassin for the CII. Hemlock is sent to Switzerland on a mission to climb the notorious Eiger peak of the Alps, whose north face has meant death to many climbers. Hemlock's target: one of his three fellow climbers. The only problem is, CII can't tell him which one...
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!