In Point of Honor, Saddam Hussein plots revenge against his enemies six years after the Gulf War. A new and far more virulent form of VX nerve gas, called the City Killer by western analysts, is finally produced in quantity. With the last of his SCUD missiles, Saddam plans to launch a devastating attack. A clandestine rendezvous between a Han Class Chinese submarine and an Iraqi freighter to deliver the Chinese produced nerve agent takes place in the Northern Gulf. Something goes terribly wrong and an errant U-2 spy plane photographs the results. Major Jim Harper leads a hastily assembled team back into Iraq. Harper faces dissension within his own team, uncertain support inside the intelligence community and a hostile welcome from the Al Amn al-Khas--Iraq's Special Security Service.

Point of Honor

Literature & Fiction

De Bono, Douglas

Genre Fiction

iUniverse, Inc.

<p>The dynamic new techno-thriller about nuclear terror! Ten bombs, ten targets, and a merciless terrorist! In the late seventies, KGB Chairman and future General Party Secretary Andropov commissions the creation of suitcase-size nuclear weapons. He orders the weapons deployed in Western Europe, Japan and America. The Soviet Empire crumbles... the Cold War ends... and the weapons are forgotten until today. A Hezbollah terrorist cell decides to make New York's Fourth of July celebration a bit brighter than usual. The threat catapults Special Forces Major Jim Harper and spymaster Louis Edwards into a desperate race against time to prevent the unthinkable from happening. Confronted by a determined terrorist known as Harlequin, squabbling within the American intelligence community and an administration more interested in symbolism than substance, Harper tracks Harlequin from New York to Boston, Washington and Chicago.</p>

Blood Covenant

Contemporary

Metropolis Ink

Over the bloody and dusty sands known as the Shatt el Arab, Saddam Hussein, embittered by the Gulf War, and Ayatollah Kambiz Abbasi, struggling to recover from a nuclear event, plot to punish America and Russia. The hollowed out Russian Army is bogged down in a dirty little war to suppress the Chechen rebellion, and Abbasi, in the spirit of Islamic fundamentalism, recruits Parvez Hyder?

Rogue State

Six years after the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein plots revenge against his enemies. A new and far more virulent form of VX nerve gas, called the City Killer by Western analysts, is finally produced in quantity. With the last of his SCUD missiles, Saddam plans to launch a devastating attack. Major Jim Harper leads a hastily assembled team back into Iraq. Harper faces dissent within his own team, uncertain support inside the intelligence community and a hostile welcome from the Al Amn al-Khas -- Iraq's Special Security Service.

December 1999. The United States relinquishes control of the Panama Canal. The Chinese-owned Panama Ports Company assumes control and a disturbing veil of secrecy descends over the strategic waterway. A clandestine mission to China's Fujian province discovers that most of the missiles pointed at Taiwan are dummies. CIA analyst Jonas Benjamin suspects that the missing missiles are being shipped to Panama on Chinese container ships. He sets out for the Panama Zone to confirm his suspicions but disappears. It is then up to Special Forces Major Jim Harper to stage a desperate rescue mission. The legendary Chinese spymaster Goldenrod is sent to America to launch a devastating cyber-attack on America's electronic eyes and ears. Amid the digital battle that ensues, a disaffected computer hacker known as Captain America discovers the truth. Against a mosaic of unforgettable characters, where nothing is as it seems, the forces of greed, power, avarice, fear, and honor collide on a silent battlefield in a race against time where most of the players do not even realize the clock is running...

Reap the Whirlwind

REAGAN, RONALD

<p>"Student radicals" overrun the American Embassy in Tehran and America plunges into 444-day nightmare. The Chinese Ministry of State Security hatches a 20-year plot to co-opt the American Presidency and position itself to become the dominant power in the 21st century. A sleepy airport in western Arkansas becomes the hub to a drugs-for-arms covert operation to supply the Contra rebels fighting the communist threat in Nicaragua. Terrorist cells sponsored by Syria, Iran and Iraq bomb the Beirut Embassy twice, the Marine Battalion HQ and abduct western hostages. In a struggle of wills between the Iranian Mullahs and an American President, a secret war rages from isolated Iranian villages to Beirut's green line to the cocaine soaked streets in Panama. The task falls to spymaster Louis Edwards and his dwindling cadre of operatives. They step across all legal boundaries only to be caught in a winner-take-all / take-no-prisoners free fire zone as Iran/Contra explodes across the headlines.</p>

Firewall

Point of Honor Pr

The Swap When U.S. forces capture Hannbali the terrorist, Abdul Haq, his second-in-command, conceives a plan to free his leader-a hostage exchange. Haq spends the next six months planning the attack. They choose their ground carefully. They prepare for the anticipated police response. They gather their strength. On a lazy September Saturday, thirty armed terrorists take down the East Towne Mall. Everything goes according to plan: they corral the hostages, thwart the locals, and confound the feds. Only one man strays from the carefully orchestrated script. Armed with nothing more than his wits, Ike Kline, a shot up Marine from Fallujah, runs toward the gunfire. The East Towne Mall siege has started, and the only hope anyone has lies in Ike's hands...

No Safe Harbor

In the late seventies, KGB Chairman and some day General Party Secretary Andropov commissions the creation of suitcase-size nuclear weapons. Originally, the weapons are designed as a terror weapon, but in light of a failing Soviet Afghan invasion and western resolve to match the Soviet arms race, Andropov orders the weapons deployed in Western Europe, Japan and America. His intention is to blackmail the West. Six months later, Andropov dies and his secrets die with him. The Soviet Empire crumbles; the Cold War ends and the weapons are forgotten until today. A terrorist known only as Harlequin launches a determined campaign to bomb Washington, New York, Boston and Chicago. The threat catapults Special Forces Major Jim Harper and spymaster Louis Edwards into a desperate race against time to prevent the unthinkable from happening.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

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Point of Honor

Blood Covenant

Rogue State

Point of Honor

Reap the Whirlwind

Firewall

No Safe Harbor

Blood Covenant