Publication Date: January 20, 2021
From its riveting start in the night skies of Afghanistan to its stunning end in the recent Paris terrorist attacks, Assassins is an insider’s story of the last 30 years of war between Islam and the West. A US commando, a French woman doctor, a Russian major, a British female journalist, a top CIA operator, an Afghani woman, and a Taliban warlord fight for their lives and loves in the dangerous streets and lethal deserts of the Middle East.
Drop by parachute into the deadly mountains of Afghanistan, feel the passion of love when at any instant you both can die, experience the bone-chilling fear of an American agent in an Al Qaeda group, and of women who face death every day, fight door to door in the bloody cities of Iraq, know the terror of battle inside a Russian tank – it’s all there, all real, in Assassins.
Did the Saudis finance 9/11? Did GW Bush let Osama bin Laden escape Afghanistan and then lie about Weapons of Mass Destruction so he could invade Iraq? Did Obama’s decision to leave Iraq in 2011 lead to the rise of ISIS? It’s all there, all real, in Assassins.
Over the course of three decades, Jack answers the call of service, slipping into countries under challenging conditions to carry out various missions.
Author Mike Bond turns up the suspense in Assassins as Jack immerses himself in danger zones, including Baghdad, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and more. Assassins proves to be full of action as the American finds himself in the line of fire.
Navigating through the loss of teammates and loved ones makes him question his commitment. As a CIA operative, Jack witnesses the ever-changing priorities in the Middle East.
The love stories woven throughout illustrate Jack’s humanity. However, the loss he experiences also ignites a passion for retribution.
Assassins delivers a military-style narrative featuring the reality of combat.
Author of nearly a dozen best-selling novels, ecologist, war and human rights journalist, award-winning poet and international energy expert, Mike Bond has lived and worked in over thirty countries on seven continents. His works have been translated into many languages and have been praised by critics worldwide for their intricate plots, fascinating characters, extraordinary settings, and explosive pace. Based on his own experiences in dangerous, remote, and war-torn regions, his novels look deeply into the dark side of humans as well as the good. They depict the terror and fury of battle and the intense joy of love, the beauty of the vanishing natural world, and the nature of the universe and its many meanings for human life.
He has covered wars, revolutions, terrorism, military dictatorships and death squads in the Middle East, Latin America, Asia and Africa, and environmental issues including elephant poaching, habitat loss, wilderness survival, whales, wolves and many other endangered species.
His novels place the reader in intense experiences in the world’s most perilous places, in dangerous liaisons, political and corporate conspiracies, wars and revolutions, making “readers sweat with [their] relentless pace” (KIRKUS) “in that fatalistic margin where life and death are one and the existential reality leaves one caring only to survive.” (SUNDAY OREGONIAN).
He has climbed mountains on every continent and trekked more than 50,000 miles in the Himalayas, Mongolia, Russia, Europe, New Zealand, North and South America, and Africa.
