Gary L. Bridges Bücher

Iran and a Mexican drug cartel forge an unholy alliance to create a gateway across the U.S.-Mexican border for al-Qaeda militants to slip undetected into the U.S. The resulting assault will dwarf the World Trade Center attack. While the U.S. leadership is distracted by the al-Qaeda threat, Iran is on the verge of arming its first nuclear weapon. The CIA and the U.S. military execute a brazen covert operation, which if successful, will crush al-Qaeda and devastate Iran's nuclear program. On the outer fringes of this international struggle, sleepy Cuchara, Colorado, has to deal with some extremely unsavory visitors.

Steve Curry, long time Cuchara resident and a Law Enforcement Officer for the U.S. Forest Service; the President of the United States, the U.S. Secretary of State, an ex Army Ranger (who is now a troubled CIA agent), and several hundred Arab leaders convene at the Cuchara Wilderness Center. A dead Somali terrorist turns up (no longer dead), accompanied by a deadly band of trained killers. The race to uncover the deadly plot begins. Steve finds himself face-to-face with a life or death decision and he has less than one minute to decide what to do.

What do international intrigue, human trafficking, President Nixon's 1972 trip to Peking, a rich shale oil and gas field, the remote Zhenbao Island, human DNA and a class ring found in the stomach of a mountain lion which almost attacked a little girl in Spanish Peaks, the hottest wildland fire ever experienced in Cuchara Valley's history, reopening the closed coal mines on Highway 12, and a CIA operation have in common? The answer: LaVeta and Cuchara, Colorado. Steve Curry and Maggie Bell team up to thwart a sinister and bizarre plot to take over LaVeta's rich oil and gas fields.