Fractured lives

"The body of a well-dressed young man is found in San Francisco's City Hall. Killed in the middle of the night by multiple gunshots from an unusual foreign pistol, the mystery is further compounded by the fact that the victim had his fingerprints surgically removed. The search for the murderer leads newspaper reporter Samuel Hamilton through the mayor's office into a maze of international conflicts, including the gritty underground world of gunrunners in Jordan and Israel, and run-ins with the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency."--Back cover.