DAVID STONE

Micah Dalton isn't paid to ask questions. He's a 'cleaner,' a CIA fixer sent in to mop up the mess when an agent or situation goes bad. But when his close friend and colleague Porter Naumann turns up dead in an idyllic hill town in Tuscany, victim of an apparent suicide, Dalton's curiosity gets the best of him. Other hard-nosed ex-CIA field men are found butchered across the globe and Dalton soon finds himself on the trail of a sadistic killer, who has a penchant for intricate knife work and Native American mysticism. The murders appear to be acts of retribution, but for what? The only link between the victims seems to be a global surveillance operation called Echelon. Dalton's search for answers takes him from the fog-shrouded mazes of Venice to the beautiful big-sky country of the American West. At every turn he comes one step closer to discovering the truth behind the truth, a conspiracy so closely guarded that even suspecting it exists could prove fatal.

CIA cleaner Micah Dalton returns for another go-round of the international espionage, government cover-ups, and high-intensity pursuit that have cemented this series in the best of spy fiction. Readers hungry for sex, bloody action and flag-waving patriotism will best appreciate this sequel to Stone's debut "The Echelon Vendetta"

Deception in the CIA, historical intrigue, and blood in the streets . . . former CIA cleaner Micah Dalton returns in the stunning new novel by "New York Times"-bestselling author St