The Lady in the Rotunda

Professor Whitfield, a middle-aged lecturer in Spanish Literature, is killing off her lovers. Shulamit Rossi has witnessed the first killing and prevented her history professor from being victim number two.

One of the dead lovers is in actuality an active duty Navy Admiral in charge of a CIA regionals operations directorate. Shocked and outraged by the killings, the Secretary of Defense convinces the President to bring Chuck Cross out of a comfortable retirement in England and Chuck in turn recalls his two nephews, Mark and Mike Asher, to help him stop Professor Whitfield before she kills more people.

Set in and around Boston and its suburbs, Mark Asher, promoted to colonel commands his old special ops tactical unit in tracking down the killer, a black on black assassin.