Qaddafi's Hit-Man. His mission: twin assassinations that will suddenly and forever explode the balance of power on this planet. He is the deadly emissary of a massive and cynical conspiracy with origins far beyond the Libyan desert, in the labyrinthine bowels of the Politburo..and the marble chambers of a seditious U.S. Government official. And rushing headlong against this vast consortium of treason--an improbable couple. Wounded CIA operative and defecting Soviet ballerina. Together they hurtle toward the hour of ultimate international reckoning.