The Assassination Option (A Clandestine Operations Novel)

From the #1 New York Timesbestselling authors comes the second in the gripping Clandestine Operations series featuring Captain James Cronley.

James Cronley's first successful Cold War mission for the about-to-be-official new Directorate of Central Intelligence has drawn all kinds of attention. He's now a captain and in charge of a top secret spy operation.

A lot of people would like to know about the operation - not just the Soviets but also the Pentagon and a seething J. Edgar Hoover. Cronley knows that if anything goes wrong, he's finished. But he's already caught up in more than one conspiracy . . .

Cronley has just uncovered a bizarre alliance between a former German intelligence chief and the Mossad. A German family whom Cronely never knew he had has suddenly and suspiciously emerged. And he has a rendezvous with an undercover agent against the Soviets known only as Seven-K.

And when he meets, Seven-K, that's when he gets a real surprise . . .