WMD Files

Suicide? Murder? Or political cover up? From the military veteran writing team that brought you Weapons of Mass Deception, facts and fiction merge into a story about the global chess match of international espionage. Sunday, January 18, 2015: Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman is found dead in his Buenos Aires apartment. First ruled a suicide, then a homicide, Nisman's death remains unsolved to this day. But one man-a Hezbollah operative-knows what really happened. He knows because he was ordered to murder Nisman-and someone beat him to it. Start listening to Death of a Pawn and go behind the scenes of this real-life drama. Shadow Nisman on the streets of Buenos Aires, then take a seat beside the power brokers as they decide which pieces on the board are safe-and which pawns will be sacrificed. Death of a Pawn is a stand-alone companion story to Weapons of Mass Deception, the riveting national security thriller about the very real threats of the 21st century.

To effectively combat the rise of global terrorism, the U.S. military must now rely on more than traditional weapons and tactics. Don Riley of the U.S. Cyber Command is given charge of a brand new effort: a new team in the CIA Operations Directorate called Emerging Threats. To establish this team he recruits three talented recent commissioned naval officers—Janet Everett, Michael Goodwin, and Andrea Ramirez—and together they uncover a new terrorist group. The group is going under the name of the Mahdi, a messiah figure of Islamic mythology, and is operating in the geopolitical tinderbox that is the Nile River basin. But the Mahdi is no ordinary terrorist group. Their stock in trade is not the usual suicide bombings and surprise attacks. In fact, the Mahdi has created and is about to release the worst kind of weapon: a hugely destructive bioweapon, known as Pandora, with a devastating fatality rate. And it will take all the resources that the U.S. can bring to bear—intelligence assets, cyber warfare and military assaults—to not only find out who is really behind the Mahdi, but to stop them before they successfully destroy the balance of power in the Middle East.