They call him the Number Killer. A calculating assassin who alwaysleaves a numerical calling card. But now he's picked the wrongvictim – M's lover – and James Bond is going to beat the odds andmake things even. From the desolate badlands of Texas to the crumbling ruins of Greece,the danger multiplies as Bond tracks his quarry to a sinister cult offanatics shrouded in the teachings of the Greek mathmatician Pythagoras. With a vicious cadre of killers trying to subtract him from the equation,Bond must infiltrate the cult and stop their chaotic computations – orthe next number that comes up may be his own...