An attempt on the life of the U.S. president is the first step in a plot involving the recruitment of a network of terrorists, and it is up to British secret service agents Blake Johnson and Sean Dillon to uncover the mastermind behind it all

"The new Sean Dillon novel, a knife-edge story of terrorism and revenge, by "the dean of intrigue novelists" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). "The bell tolls at midnight as death requires it." In Washington, D.C., on a night full of rain, a woman is struck down and killed by a hit-and-run driver. But she is not just any woman--she is the assistant to the head of the secret White House department known only as the Basement. And she had secrets of her own....

A terrorist agrees to help the British government retrieve the long-lost documents of Martin Bormann that may implicate the British royal family as Nazi sympathizers

Entreated for help by an English-Bedouin man whose thirteen-year-old daughter has been kidnapped and forced to marry a terrorist, intelligence operative Sean Dillon finds his willing assistance sparking a deadly chain of events

When a presidential visit to London is threatened by a fanatical mullah, Sean Dillon teams up with new intelligence recruit Sara Gideon, who discovers that the threat is linked to an even more menacing plot.

Sent to Kosovo on a mission, agent Blake Johnson joins forces with a British operative to stop a Russian officer in the act of torching a mosque, a lethal action that will have profound repercussions for both agents

A wealthy Arab family residing in London vows revenge against the President of the United States, whom they hold accountable for a series of attacks against their power and honor

Someone is killing off the members of an Irish splinter group known as the Sons of Erin, but the consequences are greater than anyone realizes, the fall of two governments and the derailment of the Irish peace process