David Stone's New York Times Bestseller:

The Echelon Vendetta:

Now shortlisted for The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2008

Judges’ comments:

'Classy and sophisticated, this strange and unsettling novel takes us into some of the darker reaches of the genre.'

An International spy thriller of the highest order that traverses from Venice to London to Washington, D.C.

Micha Dalton is not paid to ask questions. He's the man the CIA sends to clean up the mess when something goes wrong-an agent gets in trouble, or worse. But when his colleague and friend Porter Nauman turns up dead in an idyllic Tuscan hill town as a result of an apparent and unimaginably gruesome suicide, Dalton can't help but ask questions. And when Nauman's family is subsequently slaughtered back home in London, Dalton can sit back no longer.

Moving from Venice to London to Washington, D.C., to the unbearably beautiful mountains of the American West, Dalton tracks the specter who, with a penchant for intricate knifework influenced by Native American mysticism, is killing a disparate group of agents, former agents, and contract men-all of whom seem to have a connection to ECHELON, a mysterious company operation. The murders appear to be acts of retribution, but for what?

Elegant, horrifying, and chillingly suspenseful, The Echelon Vendetta will keep you enthralled, through it's final, supremely satisfying twist.

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