Bøker av Norman Gerard

Oil was selling for more than $50 a barrel at the height of the Arab embargo. The Alamo- an American-owned super tanker with 500,000 tons of Iranian crude in its hull went aground off the Normandy en route to Rotterdam. Premiums for tanker insurance had skyrocketed while the prestigious House of Lloyds was rotting from greed. The English economy was on the ropes, and the Brits courted the deep pockets of the Arabs to keep its economy afloat. Orchestrating public opinion on the eve of Israeli-Egyptian Peace Accord, the Mossad captured the mastermind of the Munich Olympic massacre and sent him to be tried in the World Court in The Hague. It was no coincidence that he was onboard the Alamo. The power struggle in the Mideast was escalating. The friendly government of Iran had fallen to Islamic fundamentalism. Jihad and terrorism were being exported to the streets of London and Paris. America elected a leader to restore its dignity and mange the New World Order, while the Americans, French, English and the Arabs jockeyed for oil-power. Covert deals were created between traditional enemies while friends and allies were betrayed.

In 15th Century England, a secret Star Chamber met to decide the interests of the Crown and the course of the nation. They dispensed justice as they saw fit. The Chamber was officially abolished in 1641. Lord Harold McMann, a critic of the government's adventurism into Iraq and its dependence on oil, is struck down by a sniper's bullet. Two unassuming detectives are assigned to the case: John Dimond--a divorcee, and his partner, Jack Muldown--a bachelor approaching retirement. They were selected because of their propensity to fail. Muldown is diagnosed with terminal cancer and makes his partner promise to kill him when he can no longer care for himself. But Dimond can't bring himself to kill his friend. Evidence of the assassin discovered by the Crime Scene Investigators leads to Muldown's old nemesis from his orphanage days. The nuns referred to him back then as The Left Hand of God. Dimond makes a deal with the assassin to kill his partner. In exchange, the police files and those of his employers would all disappear. For over 400 years The Star Chamber never hesitated to murder anyone who threatened to interfere with the destiny of England and its people. It's Kill or be killed.