First the man was called Driscoll. Then it was Bellman. Now he is Trotter. His name may change, but one thing remains the same - when the Congressman, the director of the Agency, calls, the man comes.
Trotter was literally born and bred to his profession: he is the single best intelligence officer in the U.S. He was a child of Cronus - a Soviet operation designed to breed American children to be used against their fathers. Or, as he now discovers, against their mothers.
Petra Hudson was placed in the U.S. years ago by the General, the Congressman’s Soviet counterpart. She bore the children she was ordered to have, but what wasn’t foreseen was the early death of her husband - leaving one of the most powerful newspaper syndicates in the world solely in her hands. Neither did the General count on her growing love for her children and adopted country.
When she disobeys the order to put a Cronus operation into effect, the children of her upstate New York town begin to die. Her cry for help brings Allan Trotter from the security of his hideaway into an explosive confrontation with the Soviet master assassin Azrael - the Angel of Death.