A Chinese dissident, targeted by his government for assassination, flees to asylum in Paris through a joint effort of the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Peter McAllen's InterLynk. A rogue intelligence agent, now freelancing, accepts Beijing's contract to eliminate the man as a threat to Communist regional control. It is an opportunity to damage McAllen's organization in the process.

A pool of InterLynk contributors is exposed, and the life of a man capable of changing the spiritual direction of the world's largest authoritarian regime is on the table. His guardian and her allies must match wits with a ruthless adversary.

The challenge before Boone Hildebrandt and InterLynk Field Operations: find and neutralize a deadly assassin. At risk with a spiritual leader for a movement numbering in the tens of millions is ongoing contributor confidence vital to the existence of the West's preeminent private intelligence firm.

Approx. 85,500 words / 298 pp.