The Expediter: 13 (McGarvey 13)

Late one balmy summer evening in Pyongyang an important Chinese intelligence general on his way to a secret meeting with Kim Jon-Il is assassinated in plain sight of a surveillance camera. The two shooters are wearing the uniforms of North Korean police officers. . Kim Jong-Il denies any knowledge of the shooting but the Chinese do not believe him. As they prepare to attack Jong-Il promises to unleash his nuclear weapons on downtown Beijing Seoul and Tokyo plunging the entire region into nuclear war. . Kirk McGarvey just off a difficult assignment that took him to Mexico City has returned to his visiting professorship at the University of South Florida. A colonel in North Koreas intelligence service shows up in person asking McGarvey to prove that North Korea did not authorize the hit. . Its the most extraordinary request McGarvey has ever received. He enters a dangerous international shadow world where almost nothing is as it seems. The puzzles lead him to a mysterious Russian ex-KGB multimillionaire whose specialty is expediting assassins for hire to Pyongyang where he finds the wedge to open up a far-reaching plot so monstrous the entire world could go up into flames and finally back to the one nation that potentially has the most to gain by such a war.. And the most to lose . . .