Return of the Assassin — George O. Bancroft

Is Owen Stanley the quiet, conscientious professor known to the students and faculty of Warnell College, or is he the angel of death who confronts the three armed men who have come to the Saturday evening college rally to execute the Lewis family?

This is when Stanley uses the skills of a long-forgotten life to kill the three. But it isn't over. During that fateful night's struggles the professor had opposed the orders of a madman when he saved the Lewis family. James Lacey, the power behind the attempted killings at the college, now has plans for Stanley and his family. His car, carrying the family, is pushed off the freeway over a twenty-five foot embankment and his sister and her two children are killed and Stanley severely wounded.

It is then that Teri Hernandez - a woman from his past; who he has never met enters that dim, shadowy world of Stanley's former life as an assassin. A life that he thought he had left forever when he left his unique Army Special Forces unit. A unit that was as far from other Special Forces units and the Special Forces are from the regular Army.

Aided by Owen's best friend, retired Marine Corps Colonel Sean Andrews, techno-genius Ron Harrison, and the father of all hackers Josh Jacobs, the pair desperately press on through a quagmire of misdirection and chaos in search of the missing Lewis family before Lacey can sacrifice sixteen year old Anne Lewis to Satan during a cult ritual scheduled in three days.

They finally locate a strange building that may hold the Lewises. But to get to them the Team must pass through a tight security net and venture down five levels into the bowels of Lacey's temple to confront the “Followers of James” and save the lovely young Anne Lewis from a blazing death at the hands of the evil madman.

And then Owen and Teri must face the unworldly powers of James Lacey in a face-to-face bout within the raging fires of his sanctuary.