The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.

At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasali...

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new...

An operative for the CIA is captured and interrogated by Korean officials; his bosses, in order to p...

Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift,...

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of ...

A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.

An assassin working for the CIA decides to take one final job before quitting only to find out that ...

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeatin...

CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting t...

After living abroad, Lana returns to the United States, and finds that her uncle is a reclusive vaga...

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world an...

Angela Bennett is a freelance computer systems analyst who tracks down software viruses. At night sh...

A brilliant CIA trainee must prove his worth at the Farm, the agency's secret training grounds, wher...

A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid ...

In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to...

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against ...

An American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with he...

Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's co...

The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed schem...

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair ...