Ebook: The Death of Griffin Hunter

Griffin Hunter is the idealistic, charming and dedicated Secretary for Disarmament of the United Nations. He is in San Francisco to attend a meeting of diplomats and urge them to approve the treaty of non-proliferation he has written, the Hunter Accord. His wife, a French actress named Sophie Berceau, is focused on the upcoming opening of her new play. Meanwhile, an old friend from youth, Leveret, is also on the scene. He, too, is in town for a reason: he must kill Griffin Hunter. His boss, Rockwell, a gun smuggler, sees Hunter's treaty as a threat to his business, but Leveret does not want to kill his old friend. Instead, he brings Hunter together with Mayumi, a bookstore owner who also happens to have had a passionate affair with the now-married Hunter years ago. Various individuals, and circumstances, it seems, conspire to bring about Hunter's ruin. This is truly a tragedy centered on the downfall of a Great Man, weakened by his own flaws, crushed by those forces that need to see him fail.