Audio Book Description:
For three decades, RichardClarke worked in the White House, State Department, andPentagon. As advisor to fourPresidents, he traveledthroughout the Middle East, visiting palaces, military bases, and intelligence centers, meeting rulers, soldiers, and spies. Some of what hefound appeared in "Against All Enemies".Much more of it appearshere. In a geopolitical thriller filled with the kind of authenticity onlysomeone on the inside could bring, Clarke takes readers just a few years into the future, when forces in both the Middle East and the United Statesare at work to launch another war. But this time, it could be nuclear, and spread to Asia and beyond. A coup has finally toppled thesheiks of Saudi Arabia, and puta determined but shaky Islamic government in their place. Everywhere, the scent of oil has begun to attractthe scorpions, and among them them are men in Washington readyto strike a Devil`s bargainto re-align the map of the Middle East.