Paul Bannerman was once his nation's deadliest weapon - a top covert operative heading up the most lethal group of contract agents and network specialists in all of Europe. Now Bannerman is a liability - an unpredicatble loose cannon that could irreparably damage America's shaky intelligence structiure, if he chooses to. So the decision has come down from the top : Bannerman and his people must be eliminated.

Suddenly death is running in Westport, Connecticut - one in a nationwide network of secret "halfway towns" where the country's most dangerous former agents have been "retired". At war with powerful elements within his own government - a war not of his making - bannerman has been lured here to this place of yard sales, minivans, commuter trains, and murder. The plan is for Bannerman and those he ran to die here, quietly. But Bannerman has other plans.