This was not great literature, but it's a fun read. For me at least.

The premise is rather silly. A Saudi prince who runs a large international national corporation and pretends that he is a friend of America is really the banker behind most of the world's terrorists. He's 'obtained' twenty nuclear bombs from corrupt people in the former Soviet Union and has smuggled them into the States where he's building home made cruise missiles out of small aircraft. With them he intends to strike at most of the major military and intelligence structures of the U.S., starting with the Pentagon.

The only people standing in his way are, of course, the main characters. Col. Peter Thorn is a former Delta Force commander, now scheduled for retirement for disobeying a direct order from the President during a mission. And his lover, Special Agent Helen Gray, a former HRT team leader and now the FBI's Moscow representative.

The book starts in Siberia and follows the main characters as they follow the trail left by the Saudi prince's men. So the reader ends up in Northern Russia, Germany, Norway, German again and finally the U.S.

It's a techno-thriller, yes, but better than most.

Larry Bond knows his stuff when it comes to military and intelligence matters. This gives the book an edge of realism.

I thought the central characters were well done. Peter and Helen had to go 'outside the lines' to do the right thing in this book. That's a theme I like reading about. Bond did a good job with this.

But over all, this book is light reading, at least for me. Like a Saturday afternoon movie, there's a very scary scenario, evil villains, traitors, truth, courage and a victory at the end.

It was a fun read. Just the light book I was looking for when I opened it.