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Karloff stands before his prey. Bolas dangle from his waist. A short bow stretches across his chest. A hunting rifle rests in his hands. Rafe can make out a phrase engraved on the stock: Ivan the Terrible."Should we disregard the warnings?""Me, I don't trust the guy. I hate to go on early impressions, but he doesn't seem the honest sort." Ships have gone down.Accountants have gone missing.Agent 117 has failed to report. And what is a Death Orchid? A GATHERING OF EAGLES... ...or perhaps pigeons. A trips-on-his-tongue con man, a British-to-his-bristles cat burglar, a tech-wizard (sorry, 'conceptual artist'), and a Russian femme fatale (with the emphasis on fatale). The Silencers. Headed by a beleaguered executive secretary and assisted by her toddler-tending husband, they match wits against a master hunter in what is truly the most dangerous game. A missing lighthouse.A lost tribe.A message in a bottle ("Send more shoes! Size nine!"). The mad hunter Ivan Karloff stalks humans on his private island reserve - as mad hunters are apt to do - and Interpol's Special Infiltration Unit (Provisional) must discover his malevolent master plan before ... well, therein lies a tale. With a loving ear and a skeptical eye, The Silencers series simultaneously pays tribute to, and parodies, classic adventure tales. An homage and a comic subversion all at once. Think Charles Portis meets the Cohen brothers (wait, that already happened) or James Bond mugs Mark Twain. There. Think that.

It occurs to Marcy that she has missed more briefings on this mission than a good supervisor should. Rafe notices her confusion. He shrugs. Of course this mission doesn't make sense. But how much sympathy can he have for her? After all, she entered the room leading a werewolf. Kip and Trevor (unwittingly) seek the sinister Dr. Damarung. Rafe and Natasha (unknowingly) storm the Abbey of the Eagles. Marcy and family (unsurprisingly) visit a village gift shop-wait, is that a ceramic swastika? It would help if any of them knew what the others were up to, but where you can't find help, there you will find: The Silencers. Natasha, the precision weapon. Rafe, the fast-talking trickster. Trevor, the gentleman cat-burglar. Kip, artificer tech-whiz. And Marcy Gainer, creator and curator of Interpol's answer to the question: Who do we have that's expendable? The Silencers. A secret formula.A sacred relic.A hidden message (well, in plain sight, but scribbled). ODESSA lives! And Field Marshal Count Frederick Adolphus Orlok, Superior of the Abbey of the Eagles and Commander of the Organization of Former SS Officers (Descendent) must finance it. If business requires making the odd were-beast, well that's the least any ordinary third generation Andean Mountain secret society evil cult leader would do. The very least. A comedy of wit and a classic adventure tale; Oscar Wilde meets Seal Team Six.