THE LOCKEN TRILOGY contains all three of the hard-edged action novels -- The Killer Elite, Viper's Game, and A Killing in Rome, featuring former U.S. State Department specialist in security and specialist that "brazen roughneck (as one reviewer called him) MIKE LOCKEN, "that brazen rough-neck" and magnet for nasty people encountered in foreign places who are very good at what they do.

Each novel is a complete and unabridged republication of the original Delacorte Press edition, also available seperately from Barnes and Noble, Nook.

"Robert Rostand (the author) knows how to let action like this explode all over the place," says BestSellers. "A writer with real flare," notes the New York Times Book Review. With Publishers Weekly adding, "The kind of stories that ought to have bullet-holes in the cover."

Writing as Robert Rostand, novelist and screen writer Robert Syd Hopkins is the author of a dozen books, three non-fiction works and nine novels under his own name and the pseudonym Rostand including The Killer Elite, the first of the Locken trilogy of hardedged, Cold War-era thrillers and the soon-to-be republished Viper's Game and A Killing in Rome. All featuring specialist in security and transport (and magnet for nasty people), Mike Locken. Hopkins has worked for the U.S. government, and lived long periods in Brazil, England, Canada and France. His books have been translated into eleven languages.