Games is a thriller that pits Russia's most ruthless Mafia organisation against a US gambling mogul for domination of his global business empire. Caught up in the vortex is Jake Zales, former CIA operative but longtime Nevada Assemblyman aiming for the White House, his mistress Sheryl Underlane a rich Virginia horse breeder, and Alana Hilliard, his estranged wife, now a senior police officer at New Scotland Yard. Zales flies to London for the Games, and to tell Hilliard that he intends to divorce her and marry Underlane. But before he can he is caught up in a nightmare of horrific murders made to look like accidents. A 12 year old girl is kidnapped and her sister, a British Olympic hopeful is told not to win a medal or the child will die: then Hilliard is attacked and razor wire looped over her face but released when she says says she is divorcing Zales. The attacker only wants Zales and the ones he loves. Games is a smoke-and-mirror nightmare into which Zales, Underlane and Hilliard have stepped. Only death can waken the others.