Six master
assassins -- each a legend in the dark corners of international
espionage -- band together to steal a fortune from the middle of a war
zone. But the mission goes tragically wrong, and they retreat into the
shadows.
Now THE ASSASSINS are back.
Former military spy Judd Ryder is
walking to his D.C. home when he spots a man coming out of his row house
who looks like Ryder and is wearing his clothes. As Ryder slows to
follow, the imposter is killed in a hit-and-run that's no accident. Was
the man the intended victim, or was it Ryder himself?
Soon Ryder learns that the key to
the mysterious events of the past and to his double's murder is an
infamous Cold War assassin, the Carnivore. Two of the last people to see
the Carnivore were Ryder and CIA trainee Eva Blake, and someone is
using them to lure him out.
From Washington D.C. to Marrakech
and Baghdad, the assassins wage a final battle -- this time against one
another -- fighting for their reputations and Saddam Hussein's
long-missing billion-dollar fortune. In the end, only one can be left
standing. Caught in the crossfire, Judd and Eva go on the run while
desperately unraveling the tangled past and battling not only for their
lives, but for their destinies.