The Circle Author:Steve Shagan The best-selling author of The Formula blends, suspense, sensuality and intrigue in a brilliant international thriller. From the first page, the reader is caught in an ever-tightening web of mystery and terror. The Circle takes us nonstop from a clandestin meeting in the Glass Room below the headquarters of the CIA to the exotic Angel Cloud Hous... more »es of Korea, and on to the heroin factories of Sicily. Phil Ricker, U.S. Deputy Attorney General, exposes a political assassination that leads him to a sensuous and breathtakingly beautiful Korean girl, an agent of the insidious KCIA. The web tightens with the appearance of Claudia Cassini, the mysterious link between the power brokers of the Overworld and the godfathers of the underworld. Together they are thrust into a global quest for a missing FBI file belonging to the late J. Edgar Hoover. The file, code-named "Gemstone", exposes a group of self-appointed demigods who have placed us all on the cutting edge of Armageddon.« less