Autley House

Former Secret Service agent Brett Woods takes an impressive turn to fiction with this taut novel of real world "black ops" and the shadowy world of U.S. government counterespionage work. Sal Franco, a senior inspector in the FBI's Special Intelligence Section, is assigned to investigate the assassination of a handful of obscure, elderly Department of Defense scientists. Unbeknownst to Franco, the assassin, Damon Cory, is a full colonel in the United States Army working under the direction of a man named Eisler, an aging intellectual of ambassador rank who, at the behest of the president, administers a classified operation known as Queenwalk.

As the deadly cat-and-mouse game unfolds, the reader follows Cory through the intellectual, emotional and procedural side of assassination, and Franco through the psychological evaluations, autopsy examinations and forensic findings of a major federal murder case. When their paths finally converge, the enigma of Eisler is unraveled and, with it, the secret of Autley House is laid bare. Autley House is a classic espionage page-turner.