Cotton Malone and his fifteen-year-old son are headed to Europe. As a favor to his former boss at the Justice Department, Malone agrees to escort a teenage fugitive back to England. But when they´re ambushed by gunmen, and both boys vanish, Malone finds he´s stumbled into a powder keg of political intrigue-and it´s about to explode.áIn a controversial move, Great Britain intends to free an infamous terrorist from prison. But an outraged American government is determined to intervene by exposing a centuries-old secret involving the Tudors that will rock the United Kingdom to its royal foundation and reignite one of history´s bloodiest conflicts. As assassins, traitors, spies, and a ruthless CIA agent fight a deadly duel for power, Malone must play one treacherous player against another-all to save two nations, and his son, from the shattering consequences of the King´s Deception.
