“Donald, good to see you.” The Senator stuck out his beefy paw and pumped Fawcett’s hand. Rolander and Fawcett had been roommates together at the University of Illinois. The Senator had been a college football star and continued his notoriety through many years with the Chicago Bears before going into Illinois politics. Senator Russell Rolander was the first to stand. The industrialist’s eagerly awaited guests sat in two leather club chairs by the fire. Velvet draperies were drawn tight against the windows, obscuring from view the frigid waters of Southern Wisconsin’s famed Lake Geneva. The study was lined from floor to ceiling with beautiful leather bound books most of them first editions. “Senators,” said Fawcett as he strode across the polished floor in his monogrammed Stubbs & Wooton opera slippers, “I’m so very pleased you could make it.” Together they must brave the subzero temperatures and sheer heights of treacherous Mount Pilatus-and enter the den of the most notorious team of professional killers the world has ever known. It is there that he finds an improbable ally in the beautiful Claudia Mueller of the Swiss Federal Attorney’s Office. Now framed for murder and on the run, Scot goes for broke and takes his own brand of justice to the unlikeliest place of all-the towering mountains of Switzerland. The deadly machinations have been set in motion by a shadowy coalition, comprising some of the highest-ranking officials in government and business-men who operate above the law, men who realize the threat Scot poses to their hidden agenda…men who will do anything to stop him.

But his search for the truth raises the blood pressure of his superiors…and casts his own life in mortal jeopardy. Driven by his professional code of duty and honor-and a solemn vow to avenge his fallen comrades-Scot creates his own rules to get some answers. On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the unthinkable has just become a nightmarish reality: thirty Secret Service agents have been viciously executed and the vacationing president of the United States is kidnapped by one of the most lethal terrorist organizations in the Middle East-the dreaded Fatah.īut one man, surviving agent and ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath, doesn’t believe the Fatah is responsible for the attack.

The lions of lucerne by brad thor