Michael Havelock's world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava. He watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karats, double agent, was efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There was nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Until, in one frantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock saw his Jenna alive. From then on, he was marked for death by both U.S. and Russian assassins, racing around the globe after his beautiful betrayer, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fist—Parsifal.

Amaya Bajaratt is beautiful, elusive, deadly—and she has set in motion a chilling conspiracy that a desperate government cannot stop. An accomplished assassin and mistress of disguise and deception, she has set in motion the boldest act of terrorism yet conceived.

Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer—one of the best—until the rainswept night in Amsterdam when his wife was murdered, an innocent victim of the games spies play. Since then he's been sailing charters in the islands. Now he's called out of retirement for one last assignment. For Hawthorne is the only man alive who can track down the world's most dangerous terrorist.

Now, with his life and the life of the President hanging in the balance, Hawthorne must follow Amanya's serpentine trail, a path of seduction, betrayal, an instant death.

Racing from a millionaire recluse's fortress to the social whirl of Palm Beach and from the Oval Office to treacherous Caribbean waters, Hawthorne will uncover a sinister network of well-placed men and women who exist to help this consummate killer—and the shattering truth behind the Scorpio Illusion.

Dead of night.  Salonika, Greece, December 1939.  A clandestine order of monks embarks on a desperate mission: to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps.  Its sinister contents, concealed fro centuries, could rip apart the Christian world.  Now, as the Nazi threat marches inexorably closer, good men and evil will be drawn into a violent and deadly hunt, sparking a relentless struggle that could forever change the world as we know it.

Peenemunde, settembre 1943: una crisi minaccia il Terzo Reich, la scorta dei diamanti indutriali sta per terminare e, con essi, la produzione dei razzi. Solo gli Alleati dispongono di diamanti industriali. Washington, settembre 1943: l'industria aeronautica americana non riesce a mettere a punto un sistema di guida per i bombardieri ad alta quota. Ma a Peenemunde gli scienziati tedeschi ci sono riusciti. Ad altissimo livello si fa strada l'idea di uno scambio fra i due paesi. Tutto deve essere condotto con la massima segretezza. La sede del baratto è Buenos Aires. Ma qualcuno sa, qualcuno che fa di tutto per impedire che il baratto abbia luogo.

Che fine hanno fatto i segretissimi documenti trafugati dagli archivi dell'FBI? Chi è Peter Chancellor? Può davvero scrivere romanzi gialli su intrighi politici immaginando fatti sanguinosi e truculenti che poi si verificano con matematica inesorabilità? Affrontando l'eterna questione se il male praticato a fin di bene sia ammissibile, Ludlum ci regala un altro romanzo.

Chi controlla il governo degli Stati Uniti? Forse il Pentagono? La General Motors? L'ITT Corporation? La Mafia? Andrew Trevayne, incaricato delle indagini, scopre di avere contro di sé un organismo che manovra politici, polizia, magistratura e stampa. La sua vita è in pericolo... e che cosa nasconde la sua elezione alla presidenza degli Stati Uniti?