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| Terrorism
is virtually an everyday occurrence in the modern world. Terrorist acts
take place in all societies, in every part of the globe with frightening
speed, little warning, excessive media attention and predictable public
outcry. Worse, terrorism breeds counter-terrorism. Imagine what would happen
if an extremist group was in a position to purchase enough fissionable
material to make a nuclear device? This is exactly the question posed by
Roland S. Jefferson in this chilling tale of international blackmail, political
intrigue and unparalleled suspense.
In the pages of 559 to Damascus, you will meet men determined to bring about a new order. Men like Fouad Rakha, so hardened by years of strife in the Middle East that all he wants is victory for the Islamic Revolution-no matter the cost. And you will meet the people who became inexorably drawn into his plan. Kelly Davis, a young black woman on the run from her past, was having a secret love affair in Trinidad when she came across a photograph that changed her life forever. Dennis Tamarkin, CIA agent and Kelly’s long-time lover, is assigned to recover a missing operative in Europe and finds himself on an unscheduled ride aboard the 559 to Damascus. Alexander Kussoff, a Russian KGB agent, was headed for the top until this mission. And Yuri Kostikov, the Russian scientist, starts everything off by letting it be known that, although he was in a French prison for twenty-six years, he had not been idle. Everything comes together on the 559 to Damascus. Some are on the train by plan, others by coincidence. But all are on the same ride to destiny. You won’t soon forget what happens on the 559, and you will never stop hoping that the forces of reason will somehow prevail in the end. |
