Terror Incorporated had planned the operation in Baghdad. All they needed was a state funeral for an important western politician. In Rome, Pope Paul VI died suddenly of a heart attack. The funeral service was to be held in the great plaza before St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome, and was to be the scene of the most monstrous mass assassination of political leaders the world had ever known. Only Counter-Terror could prevent it.
His first book as Robert Charles was 'The Faceless Fugitive' (1963) and up to 2010 he had written 33 novels as such with Blood and Sangria (2010) being the last one.
As Charles Leader he first published 'Frontiers of Violence' (1966) and wrote 17 books under that pseudonym up to 1978, the last being 'Kingdom of Darkness' (1978).