With a troubled past and a job that attracts too much attention from the law, private investigator John March has always been the black sheep of his merchant banking family-which makes the identity of his latest client all the more surprising: his smug older brother. David March has been having affairs with anonymous women he meets on the internet, and now one of these women is stalking him. David knows her only as Wren. She, however, knows everything...

Hammer accompanies a conservative politician to Moscow on a fact-finding mission. Arrested and imprisoned by the KGB on a bogus charge, he quickly escapes--creating an international incident in the process by getting into a fire fight with Russian agents. Upon his stateside return, the government is none too happy with Hammer. Russia is insisting he return to stand charges, and various government agencies are following him. A question dogs our hero:...