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1Even here, Maria thought, a pebble's throw from the grimy once-ornate facade of the Egyptian Museum, the fetid stew of Cairo in July hung in the air, noxious and unhealthy. From the car she could see shimmering thermal patterns, like ghostly dervishes, whirling through the late-afternoon falluca...

CHAPTER ONE The tall man in black robes and turban touched his forehead to the cold gravel and, hands pressed tightly palm to palm, rose from his knees. His morning prayers finished, Sayyid Hosain al-Din opened his eyes to the glorious dawning, an eastern sky shot with fire orange and vibrant...

PROLOGUEFrom Mack Bolan's journal:One on one has been one of my earliest doctrines: chess, arm wrestling, footraces, almost any activity where it works.That philosophy continues. Maybe I'm an anachronism in a world of superweapons, of scientific battles, of fighting with heat-seeking missiles, of...

PROLOGUE Sedona, Arizona Winston Grail's war against the United States government began in a fortresslike jewelry store on Madison Avenue. He was two thousand miles away when it happened, performing a ritual chant with a group of white-robed, blond-haired true seekers who'd come to his Sedona,...