The department is concerned about professional assassin and counter-agent Matt Helm. Having been given a distasteful assignment - assaulting a fellow agent in order to establish her cover in an top-secret operation - the woman is now dead. Alone in Chesapeake Bay, and pursued by his own government, Helm must complete the dead agent's assignment and assassinate an enemy operative. Unless his employers get to him first...

"Actually my 1993 novel, Without Remorse was written as a homage to Matt Helm, but with a Navy SEAL in the main role." - Tom Clancy