Forsyth, Frederick

Sir James Manson, chairman/managing director of Manson Consolidated Mining Company Ltd., comes up with an elaborate plan to topple the government of the small African republic of Zangaro in an effort to secure the mining rights to a mountain containing billions of dollars worth of platinum.

"When a terrorist known as the Preacher targets for assassination a retired Marine general, whose son is TOSA's top hunter of men, the terrorist becomes the hunted, landing him at the top of TOSA's Kill List"--Provided by OCLC.

Having once been forcibly retired from the CIA for being too ruthless, former director of Special Operations Paul Devereaux is called back into action, with the agency giving him free reign and unlimited resources to take down the top drug cartels.

"When British and American intelligence catch wind of a major Al Qaeda operation in the works, they instantly galvanize--but to do what? They know nothing about it: the what, where, or when. They have no sources in Al Qaeda, and it's impossible to plant someone. Impossible, unless-- The Afghan is Izmat Khan, a five-year prisoner of Guant?anamo Bay and a former senior commander of the Taliban. The Afghan is also Colonel Mike Martin, a twenty-five-year veteran of war zones around the world--a dark, lean man born and raised in Iraq. In an attempt to stave off disaster, the intelligence agencies will try to do what no one has ever done before--pass off a Westerner as an Arab among Arabs.--From publisher description."--From source other than the Library of Congress.

Presents four short stories and a novella by English suspense writer Frederick Forsyth involving a drug-smuggling heist on an international flight; an art scam at a London auction house; a lawyer's defense of several urban murderers; war in Europe over several centuries; and a lone white survivor of Custer's Last Stand.

McCready, chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, offered his choice of two positions--an obscure administrative job or early retirement, is not afraid to press the CIA to the explosion point to convince them their prize defector is a double agent.