The Mark of the Assassin

Contemporary thriller, in which a secret world organisation of wealthy capitalists hires a former KGB assassin to subvert world peace. To the assassin his trademark 3 gunshots in the face of his victim are just another killing: a million dollars in the bank. To thePresident of the United States they mean revenge. To the arms manufacturer they mean salvation. To a secret group of wealthy world Capitalists they mean success. But to the man from the CIA they are the mark of the assassin. In his 1st novel since his debut, The Unlikely Spy, Daniel Siva returns with a tale as frighteningly plausible as today's headlines, confirming him as a thriller writer in the top rank. The story begins with the explosion of an American airliner with 300 passengers aboard off Long Island. To the assassin his job has only just begun and each death leads to another then another. Ultimately, in a chase across 3 continents, it becomes a battle between the assassin and the only man who knows his true identity.