The eleventh thriller in the 'Rogue Warrior' series featuring 'Demo Dick' Marcinko, who returns to foil a terrorist plot -- until he finds out that the terrorists themselves have hired him for what they intend to be his final mission.
In the eleventh installment in the thrilling 'Rogue Warrior' series, a trip to Italy for Dick Marcinko turns into more than pasta and gondola rides. In Rome to lecture at an anti-terrorism security conference, Dick's paid vacation is cut short when a gang of Arab terrorists seize St. Peter's Basilica. No sweat for the Rogue Warrior, who beats the bad guys the only way he knows how: with a smile on his face. But instead of thanks and hearty handshakes, Marcinko is arrested by the 'US Air Farce', as he calls them, on trumped-up charges of violating international security. Someone tried to steal nuclear secrets from an American base in Sicily, but it soon becomes clear to the lovable Rogue that the military accused him of the crime only to coerce him to cut short his sabbatical and lend his capable hands (and trigger fingers) to figure out who is really behind the near-nuclear catastrophe.
The trail leads to a Bin-Laden wannabe who calls himself Saladin, a megalomaniac Libyan terrorist. Although Demo Dick makes short work of Saladin's compound on the Nile, the terrorist escapes to plot his next attack. Then, a mysterious international anti-terror security firm from the Vatican approaches Marcinko with a seemingly simple mission: discover who is skimming cash from a company selling computer equipment in Europe and Asia. Never one to turn down a few greenbacks, Marcinko takes the case and flies to the Far East to investigate the computer company's bad book-keeping. He stumbles upon a heroin operation run by -- who else? -- Islamic crazies. Our hero is captured, thrown into a cage with tigers, and is likely to be killed until he is rescued by faithful femme-Rogue and Red Cell teammate, Trace.
The Rogue Warrior makes a disturbing discovery: Saladin himself runs the phony international security agency and hired Marcinko to put him out of commission. And also to get revenge: Saladin and Marcinko are old pals who have crossed swords before. But if he gets away, Saladin's vengeance will go beyond killing his old nemesis -- the terrorist mastermind has already used his security agency as a front to wire the Vatican for a little Easter Sunday fireworks display. Unless, that is, the Rogue Warrior has anything to say about it.
