BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT
Two armed men board a 727 in Angola. They slit the throat of the lone
crew and fly to parts unknown. The consternation is immediate, as the
CIA, FBI, and other agencies race to find out what happened, in the
process elbowing one another in the sides a little too vigorously. Fed
up, the president of the United States turns to an outside investigator
to determine the truth, an Army intelligence officer serving as special
assistant to the secretary of homeland security. Delta Force major
Carlos Guillermo Castillo, known as Charley, a West Point graduate, a
pilot, and a veteran of Desert Storm, has a sharp eye for the facts.
Traveling undercover, he flies to Africa, and there, helped and hindered
by unexpected allies and determined enemies, begins to untangle a story
of frightening dimensions - a story that, unless he can do something
about it, will end very badly indeed, not only for Castillo...but for
all of America.
THE HOSTAGE
Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security, but
more and more is the man to whom the President turns when he needs an
investigation done discreetly. And no situation demands discretion more
than the one before them now. An American diplomat's wife is kidnapped
in Argentina, and her husband murdered before her eyes. Her children
will be next, she is told, if she doesn't tell them where her brother
is--a brother, as it turns out, who may know quite a bit about the
burgeoning UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal. There is an awful lot of money
flying around, and an awful lot of hands are reaching up to grab it--and
some of those hands don't mind shedding as much blood as it takes.
Before the investigation is over...it might even be Castillo's blood.
THE HUNTERS
Two brutal murders and millions of missing dollars in the growing
UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal have led Castillo and his team to an
estancia in Uruguay, where the man they seek is murdered before their
eyes. Who is responsible? Most likely, the people higher up in the
dirty-money chain - those willing to risk anything to keep their secrets
from being revealed. They've left enough of a trail for Castillo to pick
up the scent, and with carte blanche from the President of the United
States to follow it wherever it takes him, he ends up...well, not
exactly where he expected....
