HarperCollins, New York, 1998, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-06-019150-3.  Hard cover, 359 pages.  Very good; light edge and spine end wear, binding sound with headbands and a very slight lean.  Dust jacket with price intact has edge and cover wear, creases, tear at upper front corner fold partially repaired on verso.  Book interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  ‘But for the past twenty-eight years, Fitzgerald has been leading a double life as the CIA’s most deadly assassin.  And only days before his retirement from the CIA, he comes across an enemy who, for the first time, even he cannot handle.  The enemy is his own boss – Helen Dexter – the director of the CIA.  Dexter’s stranglehold on the agency is threatened by one decision, and her only hope of survival is to destroy Fitzgerald.  Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a formidable new foe is threatening the United States:  a ruthless hard-line Russian president, who is determined to force a military confrontation between the two superpowers.’ (from front flap)