 
 On March 27, 1985 President Ronald Reagan signed National Security Decision Directive 166, a secret program to fund, train, and arm Islamic terrorists and Afghan mujihadeen to attack the Soviets in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden and his terrorist organization, soon to be known as Al-Qaeda, were major participants in this program. From NSDD-166 came many of the terrorists and the techniques later used by Bin Laden and other Islamic terrorists in attacks on the USS Cole, the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, other U.S. personnel, and ultimately in the horrors of 9/11.When the CIA and the White House order Special Forces officer Jack Craig to lead a commando raid into Iran in May, 2005, he refuses, furious ... 
 
 Based on Mike Bond’s own experiences in Beirut, CROSSFIRE is the story of a British agent posing as a journalist hunting the Moslem terrorist leader Mohammed. At the same time a French Legionnaire, André, has embarked on a mission of revenge to kill Mohammed, and Rosa, a remorseless and passionate guerrilla, will do anything to save him. Beginning with the vicious terrorist attacks on the U.S. Embassy and Marine Corps barracks, and set in the terrifying street battles of Beirut and in the secret intelligence and arms networks of London, Paris, and Central Europe, CROSSFIRE has been praised for its portrayal of the terrors of battle and espionage and of the tangled web of Middle East politics, and for its journalistic and political realism... 
 Shot down over Guatemala with a plane full of marijuana, former Vietnam helicopter pilot Joe Murphy escapes into the jungle, hunted by the Guatemalan Army. He reaches a remote village where a young woman doctor with the anti-government guerrillas heals him. When the CIA-backed Army massacres the villagers, Murphy flees to San Francisco to tell a disinterested world. But the CIA wants him and will do anything to keep him from revealing more. He escapes them and returns to Guatemala to save the doctor, with whom he has fallen in love, and to face the war in the jungle and battle the death squads. The author was for a time the only human rights journalist left in Guatemala, where the Army and death squads had killed ... 
 As East Africa loses more and more elephants to Somali poachers, former SAS officer Ian McAdam leaves his ranch in the Kenyan highlands to join an elite anti-poaching squad. He begins the hunt only to find that Somali guerrillas have kidnapped his ex-lover, archaeologist Rebecca Hecht, and are racing home to Somalia to ransom her for guns and money. As McAdam and his men pursue them through the jungle mountains and arid northern deserts, he battles thirst, solitude, fear, emptiness and lethal animals, at the same time caught up in memories of Rebecca. She escapes the kidnappers only to be caught, and escapes again, only to risk perishing of thirst in the desert heat. If he can save her, he wonders, what future ... 
 An American climber in the Himalayas gets caught up in a CIA shipment of backpack nuclear weapons into Tibet. Hunted by the CIA and other covert agencies across Asia, North Africa, Europe, and the United States, he is captured then rescued by a young woman with whom he forms a perilous liaison. Acclaimed by critics as an "existentialist thriller" and for its penetrating portrait of the individual versus society and of the roots of war, FIRE LIKE THE SUN has also been praised as a "a deft thriller that will reinforce your worst fears about the CIA and the Bomb" (Publishers Weekly) and that "grips the reader from the very first chapter until the climactic ending" (United Press International)... |