Unencumbered by morals that would compromise his ruthless tactics, professional assassin Columbus becomes a formidable underworld ruler through a series of creative hits before targeting a presidential candidate with whom Columbus's prostitute mother had been involved.
While tracking a politician who is his next major contract-kill, one of the world's most venerated and feared assassins finds his world crumbling as the dark secrets buried in his past begin to emerge.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres, Fiction + Literature Themes
- Subgenre: General, Human Qualities + Behavior, Action + Thrillers
- Publisher: Pegasus Books
- Pages: 944
- Language: English
- Format: hardcover
- Release Date: July 1, 2008
- Date Published: July 1, 2008
- Author: Derek Haas