HE IS A KAMIKAZE.His target: a high-profile survivor of the Enola Gay bomb crew that incinerated Hiroshima more than half a century ago.

SHE IS AN EXECTIONER.Her target: those responsible for the slaughter of her father during the fall of Hong Kong in 1941.

Together they've nursed their vengeance into the twenty-first century. No one knows better than Jackie Hett, manhunter of the Special X squad. Her father has already been counted among their victims. And Jackie, implicated by blood, is next in line to die.

But the killers have more than vengeance in common. Something terrifying. Something beyond belief. But believing it is Jackie's only chance to survive it.