Stone Dancer — Murray Smith

Pomegranate. For British spymaster David Jardine, the mention of his beautiful Lebanese double agent's code name conjures up a wealth of memories: days spent teaching her the essentials of tradecraft...nights spent entwined in her supple limbs...the priceless information she's funneled him about Arab terrorists. Now, from the Middle East, she's sent a distress signal, and Jardine races to Beirut - straight into an ambush by the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service, who reveal that Pomegranate is their agent.

The Mossad kidnap Jardine because they need his help in Moscow. Their ex-agent Danny Davidov, working with a partner rumored to be a former KGB agent, has pulled off a series of counterfeit schemes around the world, ultimately cleaning out the Mafia's own bank in Palermo - providing millions to finance their next move. Target: the U.S. Treasury. Mission: provoke a worldwide financial cataclysm that will bring Russia's new government crashing down. From a war room in New York, Jardine must outmaneuver Davidov in a breathtaking game of winner-take-all...