John Boyd's newest military thriller
Guantanamo closed?
Terror trials on US soil?
That's only the beginning.
A hero captured
Deep in the mountains of Afghanistan, a SEAL team is ambushed in an attempt to capture the terrorist known as The Banker.
The team members are believed dead, but they are far from it. Lieutenant Commander Jose Carmona is captured and placed in a cave. Through a daring escape, he leads his fellow prisoners to freedom.
A fatal move
The United States President decides to begin closing Guantanamo Prison and holding terror trials on US soil. United States citizens and members of the President’s cabinet are against the trials. Some take justice into their own hands. Then, something goes wrong. A legal team involved in the first terror trial disappears. The demands for their release made by terrorists comes at a steep price, one that even the President can’t accept.
A race for his life
Carmona returns to the States to discover how his team was set up in Afghanistan. But first, he has to help his father, who was hospitalized after a vicious assault.
The search for his father’s attackers leads Carmona into another ambush, and a collision course, where the stakes could be his own life.
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PROLOGUE
Present Day
The mission go-ahead had already been given eighteen hours earlier. Lieutenant Commander Jose Carmona and his SEAL Team had been briefed by Harrison Hayes, a CIA Case Officer, and his boss Bill Nelson, Chief of Station, Islamabad Pakistan. The briefing had taken place on a U.S. Carrier off the Indian Coast in the Arabian Sea.
Lieutenant Commander Carmona and three other SEAL members began moving into position on a rough, craggy hillside near Jalalabad, Afghanistan. As they looked down into a valley, their target location, Derunta Camp, came into view.
Years earlier, the camp had been frequented by Osama bin Laden. Recently it had been hit by Predator Drones and other weaponry. The last time it was hit by the Americans or its allies was a little more than thirteen months ago. The NSA, the Drones, and the Pashtun tribal spies had kept watchful eyes on the camp since. Recent intelligence obtained by the CIA indicated that the Palestinian-born son of Abdullah Azzam, Mohammed Azzam, would soon show up here. Azzam, who’d headed Al Qaeda’s precursor group until 1989, had arranged a meeting scheduled to take place in less than an hour. Besides Azzam, the rendezvous included a Taliban leader, and a high ranking Al Qaeda member. What made Azzam so special was that he was known as the Banker, the man who coordinated all of the funding for Al Qaeda’s worldwide terrorist network.
