A matter of life. Paul Bannerman thought he had finally left the world of contract assassins and spies behind. With the sale of Communism and the Triumph of democracy, he was ready to forget his bloody past and start a new life as a private citizen. Then he gets an urgent call from Zurich that had us as false sense of security. Carla Benedictus being a men's most ruthless agent, but she's also a woman in love. She just had to eliminate her new lover, smooth lethal spy. It doesn't take long for Bannerman to realize that Carla's call will have a deadly and far reaching implication. Meanwhile in Russia are retired American police detective in a Swiss bride had been invited over the honeymoon trip and as far less innocent than it seems. Soon they will all become Unwritten pawns and underground Civil War involved in Hardline communist, devious reformers, drug smugglers, and a new and brutal Russian mafia. And Bannerman along with the unlikeliest Ally of all Will Blast his way out of retirement for a matter of Honor