Connor Fitzgerald is the professional`s professional. Holder of the Medal of Honour. Devoted family man. The CIA`s most deadly weapon. But for twenty-eight years, he has been leading a double life. And only days from his retirement, he comes across an enemy even he cannot handle. The enemy is his own boss. And she has only one purpose: to destroy him. Meanwhile, the United States is faced with an equally formidable foe: a new Russian President, determined to force a military confrontation between the two superpowers. Ranging from the Oval Office in the White House to a Russian Mafia boss` luxurious hideaway outside St Petersburg, The Eleventh Commandment sets new standards in contemporary thriller writing. Jeffrey Archer scoops his readers up in the first paragraph, and doesn`t let them go until the last. The pace, the ingenuity, the twists, intertwined with a moving love story, show Britain`s bestselling writer at the peak of his page-turning powers.