Right out of The Athena Algorithm, Michael Robert Devlin, M.R. to his friends, is the newest member of Outrider, an ultra-secret United States intelligence-gathering group. Created by the late Richard M. Nixon while Vice-President under President Eisenhower, Outrider works in the darkest shadows of the international covert community. The Athena Dictum is an intelligence tool developed by Outrider that creates a Predictive Index to forecast the potential outcome of international conflict and cooperation. The Athena Dictum knows the probabilities. Working undercover at Switzerland based Nyon Global Corporation (NGC), Devlin's backyard to collect raw information and implement Presidential policy is the Middle East and Europe. By gun, knife, and bare hands, Devlin leaves a trail of retaliatory death and destruction across the regions. With more twists and turns than a narrow Swiss mountain road, Devlin engages in dangerous, life-threatening clandestine operations with a morally flexible attitude. The women are smart, gorgeous, and lethal. Nonstop gut wrenching action blended with historical facts, politicians that changed the world, real locations, and some of the deadliest men and woman on the planet. The Athena Dictum!