Ost'gorod Falling

If the cash is there, we do not care... The dirty-deeds-for-hire business has been good to Aamon Savage, elite commando and clandestine operative turned well-paid private military contractor. Aamon is as aware as any well-informed citizen of the Civilized Universe of the deadly rebellion that had been raging within the Enlightened A'Khaanate of Ost'land; when he's hired by the government of the Independent Protectorate of Shelaän to distract the A'Khaanate's ambassador for a weekend, he doesn't think much about the job beyond its rather substantial remuneration. But when he stumbles across the ambassador less than a day later, lying injured and at death's door on a deserted beach less than half a kilometer from his home, he senses that he's blundered into something much more significant than a mere babysitting job might have implied. His instincts for entangled mayhem bear out when his outfit, Solutions LLC, is retained by the A'Khaanate's recently deposed Royal Sovereign for a very specific mission: to gain access and get close to, then eliminate her husband, the A'Khaanate's current Royal Sovereign and Head of State. Residing in the A'Khaanate under false bona fides, and operating largely alone but with the assistance of a local asset whom he doesn't know, Aamon knows that he is under the scrutiny of the Okhrana--the A'Khaanate's dreaded secret police--and that mistakes could have lethal consequences. Worse, old adversaries from a previous job have followed him to the A'Khaanate for reasons of their own, none of which, he knows, are good for him. For Aamon Savage, though, it's just another day at the office toward the successful completion of a hazardous contract and pursuit of a hefty payday.