While on a vacation trip to Israel, Charles Russell, a retired colonel, becomes caught up in the dreams and schemes of a young Palestinian visionary, an Israeli admiral, and the politically troubled Sheikh of Alidra...
Colonel Charles Russell, lately Head of the Security Executive, returns to action when he learns of the probable nuclear acquisitions of a deposed South American dictator and his aide, who seeks revenge against those who killed his family in Hiroshim...
The death of Harry Maxim, who fell from a fifth-floor apartment, leads Charles Russell into an investigation of an international heroin ring and a parliament member's attempt to avenge his narcotics-addicted son...