Publisher's Synopsis
Giddings Schulenburg, the chief field agent for the mysterious Pierce Library, becomes involved in a mystery concerning a series of murders which have taken place throughout the world. Murders where the only connection is the Russian word for "disappointed". Traveling back and forth across the United States . . . and accompanied by one of the remaining targets for assassination . . . Schulenburg soon uncovers a plot that threatens to unleash global annihilation, and brings him face to face with a man he had hoped he would never meet again.
