内容简介：
John Markham Cortland is the embodiment of Big Oil, a wealthy industrialist secretly smuggling arms and cocaine. Reaping billions in drug profits that dwarf even his oil empire, he compels American intelligence to turn a blind eyeuntil he cultivates new clients in the Middle East. Leighton, an assassin with a checkered past in covert operations, is assigned to kill Cortland in Costa Rica as he vacations with his mistress. But when Leightons escape plan mysteriously fails, he goes to ground as the agency sends an old flame in harms way to smoke him out. Paula Grant carries the proof that Leightons assignment was a rogue operation, but even she does not know if her true mission is to rescue him, or flush him before the guns of the agencys contract killers. Evading a nationwide manhunt, Leighton and Paula come to realize they threaten the forces that engineered Cortlands death, forces that have penetrated their own agency and arranged to sabotage the dead industrialists promising synthetic fuel.