From the author of The Harbinger Effect

comes an edge-of-the-seat political thriller as

a special forces sergeant and a San Diego

librarian are drawn into a tangled web of deceit

and romance.

Former SAS trooper A. C. MacKinnon was

the best fighting machine in the business until

alcohol took the place of pride and profession-

alism. But when an old comrade-in-arms

tracks him down to the desolate New Zealand

sheep farm where Mac has turned his life

around, he comes with an offer MacKinnon

cannot afford to refuse: train a handpicked

surgical strike team to swoop down on Mo-

ammar Qaddafy s desert retreat and wipe the

dreaded madman off the face of the earth.

Deadly (and justifiable) business as usual--

but before Mac even leaves the training site,

someone tries to kill him. Suddenly, nothing

and no one is who or what they seem: Qadda-

fy s proposed death plot is merely a cover-up

for an even more sinister and far-reaching con-

spiracy-one that could affect the future of

the Middle East and the entire Free World. On

the run from those he once trusted, and the

prey of a cold-blooded hired assassin, Mac-

Kinnon is desperate to diffuse this potentially

devastating situation. And when he unwit-

tingly involves librarian Anne Rowen, it

becomes a fight to the death for them both as

they are caught up in a chilling maelstrom of

political intrigue and international terrorism--

and a love neither of them could possibly have

foreseen