The Assassins

Six master assassinseach a legend in the dark corners of international espionageband together to steal a fortune from the middle of a war zone. But the mission goes tragically wrong, and they retreat into the shadows. Now the assassins are back. Former military spy Judd Ryder is walking to his DC home when he spots his doppelganger across the street, a man who is wearing his clothes and pretending to be him. As Ryder slows to follow, the impostor is killed in a hit-and-run thats no accident. Was the man the intended victim, or was it Ryder himself? Ryder soon learns that the key to the mysterious events of the past and to his doubles murder is an infamous Cold War assassin known as the Carnivore. Two of the last people to see the Carnivore were Ryder and CIA trainee Eva Blake, and someone is using them to lure him out. From Washington, DC, to Marrakech and Baghdad, the assassins wage a final battlethis time against one anotherfighting for their reputations and Saddam Husseins long-missing billion-dollar fortune. In the end, only one can be left standing. Caught in the crossfire, Judd and Eva go on the run while desperately unraveling the tangled past and battling not only for their lives, but for their destinies.