From New York Times bestselling author Ted Bell, this "highly imaginative thriller " (James Patterson) follows intelligence operative Lord Alexander Hawke as he races to avert an American armageddon. In an elegant palazzo on the Grand Canal, an American ambassador's tryst turns deadly. In the seedy underbelly of London, a pub-crawling killer is on the loose. And in a storybook chapel nestled in the Cotswolds, a marriage made in heaven turns to hell...