Robert Ludlum hits the road again! In this hilari-

ously funny thriller. America s master of suspense

resurrects his two most outrageous characters,

General MacKenzie Lochinvar Hawkins--the

Hawk--and Harvard-trained legal wizard Sam

Devereaux, who were last sighted attempting

to kidnap the pope in Ludlum s great comic best-

seller The Road to Gandolfo.

A former general of the army, twice winner of

the Congressional Medal of Honor and a military

legend misunderstood by military and civilian

authorities alike, the Hawk studies the yellowed

pages he has razor-sliced out of a volume in the

sealed government archives. His leather-lined

face is creased in triumph: He has the bastards!

"Roll those caissons!" he swears under his

breath as he strides out of the Bureau of Indian

Aft airs. "It ll take some time, but get ready for me,

you beautiful Wopotamis!"

Twenty-one months pass, but nobody is ready

for the Hawk in the magnificent headdress of

Thunder Head, chief of the Wopotamis. Accord-

ing to the treaty in Hawk s possession, this impov-

erished Indian tribe owns all the territories within

the flights of a thousand arrows in and around

Omaha, Nebraska-including the massive global

headquarters of the Strategic Air Command. The

law is perfectly clear, even to the strictest con-

structionists: Any and all improvements made on

illegally possessed or usurped property rightfully

belong to the original owners.

SAC! The biggest defense enchilada of them all!