ASSASSINATIONA Secret Service agent is dead, an apparent suicide. A presidential candidate narrowly escapes an assassina (TM)s bullet. And Desk Three, a covert branch of the NSA, is searching for a chilling connection deep inside the Republic of Vietnam.INTERROGATIONOnce, Charlie Dean was a Marine sniper in Quang Nam Province. Today hea (TM)s a Deep Black operator, returning to Vietnam to find the source of some threatening e-mail. Instead, he comes face to face with a man he once hunted downa ]and thought he had killed.FEAR FOR THE NATIONa ]Back in the U.S., Deep Black agent Lia DeFrancesca has uncovered the trail of a killer in Deana (TM)s path. Now, with every asset, weapon, bug and high-tech magic wand Desk Three can wave, the agents enter a terrifying global race against time. Because ghosts of the past have risen to lifea ]to strike a death blow at the heart of the U.S.A.a oeCoonts knows how to write and build suspense.a a " The New York Times Book Review