Cut-out: A third person used to conceal the contact between two people-usually an agent and a handler who do not want to meet because one or both may be under surveillance. A pawn.

As thousands watch, the American Vice President is kidnapped from the streets of Berlin, and in the midst of the fire and terror, a dead man comes back to life.

Eric Carmichael was a risk-taking CIA agent obsessed with a terrorist organization called 30th April- until they got him first, bombing the jetliner on whih he was a passenger. Caroline was once Eric's protegee. She became his wife, and then his widow. but whe the tapes of the VP's abduction show Eric alive, it is Carline who must discover whether his obsession has driven him into playing the ultimate double game. Caught in the intricate snare of lies and deceit, she is plunged into the deadliest assignment of her career-becoming the perfect cutout to spearhead the desperate search for Eric and the dying Vice President. And, in doing so, she begins an ever-more intimate dance of sexual attraction and murdeous intent, a dance which leads her to the dark heart of a ruthless man's vision- and a deadly plot whose implications are stunning.

Genre: Thriller