"Has an enjoyable, realistic feeling...will appeal to action junkies
and armchair diplomats alike."
-- Kirkus ****
Tom Locke must track a missing Saudi prince deep inside ISIS territory
in this second military action thriller from the authors of Shadow
War.
Disillusioned after a mission in Ukraine goes tragically wrong, military
contractor Tom Locke is on the run from Apollo Outcomes, a private
military corporation run by the treacherous Brad Winters. While working
undercover with his surviving team members on the frontlines of
ISIS-infected Iraq, they are approached by a Saudi middleman who offers
good money to find the missing son of a high-ranking government
official.
What Locke doesn't know is that the missing young Prince may have been
carrying the result of a secret agreement made with the Pakistanis in
the 1960s, and that his father may or may not be trying to topple the
Saudi government. As he pushes deeper into ISIS territory, Locke must
figure out both the on-the-ground battle lines and the larger Deep State
war he has stumbled into yet again.
Who is the mysterious Saudi who hired Locke's team? Is the prince's
disappearance personal or political? And how many sides are being played
against each other in a Middle East torn apart by overlapping and
contradictory alliances? To complete the mission and keep his men safe,
the battle-hardened Locke must use every skill he has to defeat a
fanatical enemy on the ground--while a duplicitous adversary much closer
to home waits for his chance to strike. . . .
