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With unwavering exhilaration and in magnificent design, counter-terrorist operative Alexander Hawke returns in this impressive New York Times best-seller from Ted Bell, "the new Clive Cussler" (James Patterson). Aboard a ship while in the south of France, an American traveler faces certain death and torture for that essential, intense intellect he offers. In Paris, an effective and ruthless descendant of Napoleon has forged an unholy alliance with China because of its developing nuclear strategy, set to deliver America and the planet to the edge of the stomach-wrenching series. Today, in a maelstrom of razor's-advantage risk, Alex Hawke must enter the nightmare dreams of madmen to defuse an axis of evil no historian might have expected -- and no living heart might endure.