In The Road to Gandolfo Ludlum introduced the outrageous General Mackenzie Hawkins and his legal wizard Sam Devereaux. Now the Hawk is back - and shows absolutely no sign of retiring from the world of intrigue and adventure that is this lifeblood.
Irrepressibly maddening, worshipped by the men he once led into battle, he is now in his sixties - and he's planning a $500 million capper, a scheme to right an old wrong, and wreak vengeance on those who drummed him out of the military.
And it is Sam Devereaux's misfortune that, once again, he is dragged into the Hawk's endless quest for honour, justice - and money.

In The Road To Gandolfo, Robert Ludlum introduced us to the outrageous General MacKenzie Hawkins and his legal wizard, Sam Devereaux, whose plot to kidnap the Pope spun wildly out of control into sheer hilarity. Now Ludlum's two wayward heroes return with a diabolical scheme to right a very old wrong -- and wreak vengeance on the (expletive deleted) who drummed the hawk out of the military. Their outraged opposition will be no less than the White House. Byzantine Treachery. Discovering a long-buried 1878 treaty with an obscure Indian tribe, the hawk -- a.k.a. Chief Thunder Head -- hatches a brilliant plot that will ultimately bring him and his reluctant lawyer Sam before the Supreme Court. Their goal: to reclaim a choice piece of American real estate -- the state of Nebraska. Which just happened to the headquarters of the U.S. Strategic Air Command! Will they succeed against the powers that be? Will the Wopotami tribe ever have their day in the Supreme Court? From the Oval Office to the Pentagon, all the president's men are outfitted, until it rests with CIA Director Vincent "Vinnie the Bam-Bam" Mangecavallo to cut Sam and Hawk off at the pass. And only one thing is certain: Robert Ludlum will keep us in nonstop suspense and side-splitting laughter-through the very last page.