Jon Land's 4th sensational thriller, released in February 1986.
" "The Committee" has masterminded a fiendish, far reaching plot, a mailgnant conspiracy rooted in the highest corriders of power. Code name: Tantalus.
Tantalus - all the more daring because it is so obvious - strikes at the very lifeline of humanity. Its aim is enormous, horrible, and unknown eben to the superpowers.
Only one man, Christopher Locke, an unsuccessful college professor, can expose the trail that begins with the brutal execution of every person in an obscure South American town.
Everywhere Locke turns someone is trying to kill him. Some are his enemies. Some are his friends. The only way to stay alive is to stop the Committee's sinister plan.
From Washington, D.C., to an ancient castle near Vienna...from the mountains of Colombia to the north Texas prairie, Christopher Locke fights his way through a maze of deception and blackmail, torture and assassination, in a shattering race to stop Tantalus."
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