The directive came from the White House, and the target was less than twenty miles away in an affluent Maryland suburb.

For Mack Bolan it was a very strange assignment: to protect a high-level Iranian exile, General Eshan Nazarour, from imminent assassination. It became stranger still when the general's beautiful American wife was kidnapped. Immediately the intrigue, violence - and murder - began to form a familiar pattern. Organized crime was getting involved with foreign subversion. The maze of treachery and terrorism could lead to only one conclusion - the deadly presence of the Executioner: Mack Bolan!