Resume Hostilities

I give you twelve hours life expectancy. The Charlemagne Files Collection, Volume 2, introduces new members of the team during a time of change in the Cold War. The three books contained in this volume, Lion Tamer (#5), State of Nature (#6), and Vory (#7), span the years between the early 1980s and the early aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet empire. For Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by Western governments for black operations conducted without fingerprints, it is a turbulent period of adjustment to a new era in which women become operational as both allies and adversaries.