Commander T. C. Bogner

The cutting-edge Russian SU-39-Covert stealth bomber, with fighter capabilities years beyond anything the U.S. can produce, vanished while on a test run over the Gobi Desert. Half a world away, a dissident faction of the Chinese Red Army engineered an abduction of a top scientist.

When a military jet went down off the California coast, killing the Secretary of the Air Force, it was a tragedy. When another jet crashed with the Undersecretary of State on board, it became cause for investigation. When a member of the State Department was found shot in the back of the head, his top-secret files missing, it became a national crisis.

It began when satellite photos revealed certain anomalies along the border of Saudi Arabia and Jordan - entire areas where there was no longer any sign of life. That, combined with reports from Iraq that some nomadic tribes had been decimated by a mysterious illness, could mean a global nightmare was becoming a reality - someone was perfecting a more effective, more deadly form of germ warfare. But who? The American government had to get to the truth behind the lies and the rumors, and quickly. With no time to lose, they turned to the only man who could be trusted to handle the volatile situation - reluctant agent T.C. Bogner. Only Bogner could hope to infiltrate the circle of arms dealers and survive long enough under cover to track down the source of the deadly, unholy gas. But even for Bogner it was a near-impossible mission...with the fate of millions hanging in the balance.