Evensong

A near-future thriller where the fate of the world rests on peacekeepers that resort to deadly measures.

The future is a dangerous place. Keeping the world stable and peaceful when competing corporate interests and nation-states battle for power, wealth, and prestige has only gotten harder over the years. But that's the United Nations' job. So the UN has changed along with the rest of the world. When the UN's "soft" diplomacy fails, it has harder options. Quiet, scalpel-like options: the Dead - biologically enhanced secret operatives created by the UN to solve the problems no one else can.

Anwar Abbas is one of the Dead, and one of the deadliest human beings on the planet. When the controller-general of the UN asks him to perform a simple bodyguard mission, he's insulted. And resentful. But he takes the job. Because that's who he is and what he does.

Anwar is asked to protect the host of an important UN conference, the beautiful Olivia del Sarto. Olivia is the head of one of the fastest-growing churches in the world, and in her rise to power she has made incredibly wealthy enemies.

As they ignite a torrid affair, Anwar must uncover the conspiracy that threatens to destroy her, and the UN-as well as all of the Dead.