The Killers #2

When Hassan Ibn Sabah dreams of wielding absolute power through unwavering loyalty rather than armies, he stumbles upon a dark path to make that vision real: a potent herb that conjures visions of paradise, which he uses to bind his followers into fearless killers willing to die at his command. As Hassan's assassins strike down his enemies—including his former friend Nizam Al Mulk and even Sultan Malikshah—a legend grows of the mysterious "Old Man of the Mountains" and his devoted fedawi, spreading terror across the medieval East. But even the most formidable empire built on fear and illusion cannot stand forever against the rising tide of history.

When a six-dollar auction purchase of a mysterious sealed chest triggers a cascade of violence, Tom Rice of the New York Homicide Squad must unravel the connection between a dead narcotic peddler, a fortune in hidden drugs, and a gang of ruthless criminals closing in. As the clues pile up—a mirror flash at the auction, a doctored getaway car, and a young man unwittingly caught in the crossfire—Rice races to stop the killers before they claim their prize and disappear into the underworld.

Detective Scott Hunter of the C.I.D. pursues the brutal Mr. Zin, a killer who has escaped from prison and resumed his reign of terror across London—but Zin strikes first, attempting to eliminate Hunter with a poisoned meal at a restaurant. As Hunter closes in, Zin's scheme to extort a waterfront warehouse through blackmail and murder spirals toward a deadly confrontation on the fog-shrouded Thames, where hunter and hunted clash one final time aboard a moving yacht.