In his debut novel, The End of Enemies, Grant Blackwood introduced his hero Briggs Tanner, who, after witnessing the murder of a stranger, finds himself embroiled in a plot that takes him from Japan, to a remote island in the Pacific, and finally to the bullet-ridden back alleys of Beirut. In The Wall of Night, as the world marches toward a catastrophic war, Tanner returns to China to solve a mystery that has haunted him for twelve years. In An Echo of War, Tanner’s search for a missing family member turns into a race to secure a biological weapon born in a secret bunker during the dying days of the First World War.
Here, in Sacrificial Lion, Blackwood introduces Henry Caulder, a British spymaster who slips into cold war East Berlin on an impossible mission. In the balance hangs the fate of Europe, and perhaps the world. But Sacrificial Lion is not just a tale of espionage, it’s also a legacy of sorts, for Henry Caulder is the grandfather of Blackwood’s newest hero, Sam Caulder, who, fifty-five years after Henry’s fateful mission, will find himself entangled in a manhunt that pits him against rogue spies, mafia kingpins, Washington’s power elite and a billionaire intent on controlling America’s future. Blackwood plans several Sam Caulder adventures.
For both Caulders, past and present, the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
But each man is up to the task.