Hired by a wealthy oil man to help avenge his murdered niece, teamed with a crack unit of international killers, Alec Thompson, Ph.D., has left the ivied walls of academia to play the game he plays best. Ex-Green Beret, Vietnam vet, full-time historian and part-time manhunter, Thompson is the one man who might have the brains and guts to get close to a team of terrorists – and finger them to be killed. From Washington to Malta to the back alleys of Berlin, he turns on the heat – and flushes out savage murderers. With a beautiful lover who may not be his friend, he traces the terrorists to Paris, and the ultimate treachery. The CIA is waist deep in an underworld of killing and fanaticism, but they’re on the wrong side. Now Thompson knows there’s only one way for him to make it out alive; to hold himself out as live bait, and see who wants to kill….Condition: minimal shelf wear, spine creased from reading, bookstore stamp inside front cover.