Jack Higgins

When intelligence operative Sean Dillon stops Caspar Rashid at Heathrow Airport for a routine passport check, Rashid, a distraught man whose thirteen-year-old daughter, Sara, has been kidnapped and taken to Iraq to marry one of the Middle East's most feared terrorists, begs Dillon for help.

Someone is targeting the members of the elite intelligence unit known as "the Prime Minister's private army" and all those who work with them, and Sean Dillon has an idea of who it might be.

"In Washington, D.C., on a night full of rain, a woman is struck down and killed by a hit-and-run driver. But she is not just any woman--she is the assistant to the head of the secret White House department known only as the Basement. And she had secrets of her own. In the Virgin Islands, former president Jake Cazalet receives a warning. He is recuperating on a diving trip after successfully helping Sean Dillon and the rest of the "Prime Minister's...

Locals call it the Rio das Mortes -- the treacherous Brazilian river where the Huna tribe is known to kill all who trespass. Despite the river's deadly reputation, pilot Neil Mallory agrees to fly supplies to outposts there in hopes of making enough money to buy his passage back to England. But when he and fellow pilot Sam Hannah discover a field of massacred missionaries shot through with the Huna's arrows, they decide to strike out along the River...