Jonathan Pine is working as the night manager of a Cairo hotel. He gets involved with a local woman who is the girlfriend of a local gangster. Through her relationship with the gangster she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with an English billionaire.

One bad turn...deserves another. Charlie has quit her job in close protection, been turned out of her apartment, and is apparently out of luck. House-sitting in rural New Jersey has to be the pits--TV and TV dinners. A far cry from Iraq... Bulgaria... Afghanistan. Unlucky or not, she happens to be around at the right time to foil a violent kidnap attempt on Helena, wife of billionaire arms dealer, Eric Kincaid. Kincaid offers her a job looking after...

Thief extraordinaire Riley Wolfe is the prisoner of an international arms dealer and art collector who wants Riley to steal a certain work of art by Raphael. Small problem--it's in the Vatican. Slightly larger problem--it's a fresco. And, it's a literal wall in the Apostolic Palace. Riley has no choice: agree or die. But when his captor turns him loose, Riley is grabbed by another arms dealer looking to do a double cross. He gives Riley a special...

The world's sea levels are rising, much higher than could be accounted for by glacier melt. Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA team rocket around the globe in search for answers.