Abstract:
Pete McCauley, retired Army officer and sometime CIA operative, is assigned to accompany Leslie Raye, gadfly of the free-the-hostages movement, on a clandestine mission to Beirut at the height of the hostage havoc of the 1980s. Her job is to accept the release of kidnapped American journalist Christopher Leonard, long held captive by Muslim terrorists. In event of a trap, McCauley is ordered to prevent her from becoming a hostage herself, even if he has to kill the attractive young intermediary. In pursuing his assignment – and Leslie – he uncovers a bizarre plot to assassinate the President of the United States.