Gentleman spy Alex Hawke has all but given up on life.The British-American MI6 counterterrorism operative lost the woman he loved on his last mission, almost a year ago, and he’s been hiding at the bottom of a bottle ever since. But then late one night he receives a wake-up call . . . literally.

His Royal Highness Prince Charles, an old friend of Hawke’s, needs his help. Someone has threatened the royal family’s safety. And the threat is signed with the same signature as a suspicious piece of paper found in a book that belonged to Charles’s uncle, Lord Mountbatten, the beloved family patriarch who was assassinated 30 years before. Someone has the British crown in his sights, and they’ve proven once before that they are not to be taken lightly. This is just the assignment Hawke needs to get his life in order, but in so doing he has to be careful not to lose it. 

Warlord is adventure thriller fiction of the highest orde