The sequel to the well-received The 56th Man finds former Iraqi agent Ari Ciminon volunteering to translate for an Arab prisoner in a Virginia state prison. The reward for this bit of magnanimity is a brush with a professional assassin and a nose-to-nose confrontation with one of the most loathsome and dangerous men in all of history.

In this third volume of The 56th Man series, Ari Ciminon again lands in hot water through no fault of his own. While helping a neighbor find her missing husband, he stumbles across a group of bombers who are terrorizing central Virginia. Only these bombers aren't your average terrorists...and what they lead him to is almost beyond comprehension.

Skunk McPherson's death in a shootout drew the attention of national media. And if Skunk's son, Mute McPherson, had any doubts about his father's demise, they should have been laid to rest when he identified the corpse at the morgue. Yet evidence mounts that Skunk is alive, and is having the time of his life dragging his children through a quagmire of greed, lust and murder.

A former member of Saddam Hussein's Special Security Force arrives in Richmond, Virginia and sets out to solve the gruesome murder of an entire family--in his own peculiar way.