Scorpion's Dance

"Special agent Mark Donovan had watched the politicians let Abu Beka and his "Army of God" terrorize the West for far too long. The self-styled "holy warriors" struck when and where they wanted, taking hostages and killing with an almost mystical frenzy of hatred. Negotiations were pointless and attack on their scattered strongholds only wasted time. Donovon knew the only way to crush the fanatics was to beat them at their own deadly game: to fight fire with fire until the smoke cleared in peace. Russia and The United States had no other recourse and joined forces in the greatest test of glasnost yet. Donovan and his Soviet counterpart, Anton Petrov, wre given only one directive: stop Abu Beka. It was the first step in what would be lethal..."--Back cover.