House of Cards - New Avengers, Bk 1 Author:Peter Cave CODE NAME: HOUSE OF CARDS — SUBJECT: ASSASSINATION — TARGET: ONE JOHN STEED — Assigned to rescue a Soviet defector, the impeccable Steed, the voluptuous Purdey, and the dashing Gambit find themselves targeted in a nightmare deep agent plot: 12 Soviet "sleepers," narco-programmed for terror and triggered by a torn deck of cards, marching l... more »ike zombies on British Intelligence with orders to kill.« less