Frederick Forsyth delivers another page turner.
The Afghan grips the reader''''s inteterest from its very beginning.
It''''s a post September 11 world. The enemy is terrorism. By fluke, a careless omission of a junior guard, a high ranking operative of
Al Qaeda is killed in a covert operation. The dead
man cannot reveal any secrets, but his laptop can. Allied secret agencies learn Al Qaeda is planning
al-Isra, a holy journey, guaranteed to land the participants in heaven. In other words, they will need to prepare for and hopefully prevent an
attack on western interests that makes September 11 attacks look meaningless in comparison. The only problem is, nobody outside the highest Al Qaeda operatives knows what
al-Isra is going to be.
Enter Colonel Mike Martin, a 25-year war-zone veteran, a long-time member of the SAS, an agent known for slipping in and out of dangerous zones unnoticed, and best of all, a man who grew up in Iraq and could pass for an Arab. Who better to infiltrate Al Qaeda and stop the attack?
The story takes us from Washington to London to Malaysia and back again. Martin successfully joins Al Qaeda and is launched into
al-Isra without knowing what it is and not being able to warn his superiors. The action comes to a gripping conclusion, with Martin fighting his opponents single handed, just minutes from the planned strike on the G8 summit.
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