A young American aid volunteer Ricky Colenso is brutally murdered in former Yugoslavia. His grandfather the Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond is bent on revenge. The quest to find Ricky's murderer leads Edmond to Cal Dexter ex-Vietnam Special Forces the one man who could bring the killer to justice. But what starts as a personal domestic tragedy soon explodes into a terrifying drama on the centre stage of world terrorism. From the battlefield of Vietnam via war-torn Serbia to the jungles of Central America Avenger" is packed with riveting detail breathtaking action & political suspense while in Cal Dexter we meet an unforgettable hero in the most dynamic Forsyth tradition."