"An epic politcal thriller...riveting"-Richard J. Wall, A Reviewer Morningstar, eager to put his Master Plan into effect, calls upon the international assassin, Cobra, to kill a troublesome adversary. Cobra's counterpart, Mark Justice, obsessed with the need to stop him, reaches out to psychiatrist James Samuels, forcing Samuels to choose between his devotion to justice and his obligation to duty. Meanwhile, as the war in Latvia rages on, a war with the past is being fought on three fronts by Maddi, Henderson, and a young Philadelphia police officer who is intricately tied to Maddi. This officer is eager to bring Maddi's old transgressions to light, but with each step he takes, he uncovers an unsettling fact about his own history. As Maddi tries to outrun her troubled past, and Henderson wrestles with a death wish, Morningstar sees a way not only to stop them from interfering in his efforts, but to end Madison's meddling for good.