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Walter Farr has done well for himself. One of the top investment counselors in New York, he has earned a fortune and amassed everything he could ever want, except a close relationship with his son, Howard. When the boy’s mother died, Walter did what he could for their child, but each year Howard pulled further and further away. Even so, Walter never expected something like this. Howard has been arrested for importing cocaine. The charge is not trivial - Howard’s crime could put him away for life - and to get him out of it Walter will do the unthinkable.

Peterson is bewildered by the satellite photos in front of him. As head of the CIA, he is never supposed to be surprised, but what could be happening in Chad alarms him. The pictures show a small research installation, nestled in the African jungle, where a West German company claims to be building a base to launch communications satellites for use by developing African nations. But Peterson’s analysts tell him that the ordinary, innocent-looking silo is just the size necessary to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile into outer space.

The people in the car don’t recognize Mary as anything special. They see the skinny ten-year-old as just another young girl on the streets of Brussels, not as the daughter of a US ambassador. The black car stops and Mary, used to having a chauffeur, climbs aboard. Before she knows what’s happening, she is on her way to a mansion in Antwerp with a specially designed, child-sized cell. She has been abducted. Now, a team of FBI agents, along with Europe’s foremost psychological profiler, are on the hunt for the girl’s captors.

En russisk KGB-agent, der arbejder ved den sovjetiske ambassade i Tokyo, kontakter amerikanerne med ønske om at hoppe af. Hans betingelse er, at han selv skal gå til amerikanerne, mens hans kone skal gå til englænderne, og både amerikanerne og englænderne er målløse. Men allerede da han lader sig overtale til at rejse til Japan, ved den snu Charlie Muffin, at det er for godt til at være sandt. Og alle hans værste forudanelser går i opfyldelse, da han må kæmpe for selv at overleve i den japanske hovedstad ...