The Big Stiffs — Michael Avallone

The President of the United States sent his very Special Private Investigator, Ed Noon, to Rome to pick up an innocuous package. But the enigma of that package and what it held hurled the redoubtable Noon into a fantastic set-piece of espionage, mayhem and sudden death. Where else but the Eternal City could he have met a pistol-packing giant like Kate Arizona, a tough policeman like Captain Santini, and the dread terrorist group known as the Arcangeli?