Alex Hawke has all but given up on life. The British-
American MI6 counterterrorism operative lost the woman he
loved almost a year ago and has sought refuge at the
bottom of a rum bottle ever since. But late one night at
his home on Bermuda, he receives a wake-up call . . .
literally. His Royal Highness Prince Charles, an old friend,
desperately needs his help. The prince has discovered a
not-so-subtle threat directed toward the British royal
family. What’s more, the evidence reveals an ominous
connection to Charles’s god-father, Lord Mountbatten—the
beloved family patriarch assassinated by an ingeniously
designed bomb thirty years before. A shadowy figure from
the past has the British crown in his sights, and has
proven once before that his warnings are not to be taken
lightly. Several clues point to IRA involvement, but the
authorities have little to go on and answers are scarce.
This is just the call to duty Hawke needs to get back into
action—if the madman doesn’t strike first. Alex Hawke, one of the most dashing and compelling action
heroes in all of thriller fiction, faces his most
formidable challenge yet in Warlord, a gripping, white-
knuckled adventure told with verve and swashbuckling
panache by a master of the art.
Alex Hawke
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