Out of the Ashes

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 292 pages
• Published by: iUniverse, Inc. April 22, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0595315143
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0595315147
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 15.4 ounces

Product Description
The September 11 terrorist attacks are nearly a five-year-old memory. Though the United States has never felt more secure, al Qaida is getting ready to prove otherwise. Instead of commercial airliners, now al Qaida plans to use a biological weapon of mass destruction they call the "Phoenix." Instead of fanatical Muslim terrorists, they've recruited three young American men to commit acts of bioterrorism without suspicion. Instead of targets like New York City and the Pentagon, they plan to strike America's Heartland, unleashing the Phoenix on three unsuspecting cities while the nation celebrates its independence.

The government's ultra-secret Phoenix Task Force races against the clock to decode al Qaida's encrypted communications network and expose the Phoenix operation. The President orders task force agents army officer Matt Garret and government scientist Annie Stewart to work undercover for the head al Qaida Phoenix operative in the Costa Rican tropics.

With only seven days before the attack, Matt and Annie become entangled in a web of love and terrorist intrigue, putting their lives at risk to unlock the secrets of the Phoenix and to stop al Qaida's diabolical plot before the Phoenix can rise Out of the Ashes.

Publisher Description
Al Qaida is plotting to attack the United States with biological weapons of mass destruction on Independence Day.

Reader Reviews
Matt Garret and his love, Annie Stewart, are great additions to the genre of adventure fiction. Their creator, Skip Allen, has written a first novel that begs to become a series--a long series. Faced with a plan by al Qaida to send American bad guys into America's Heartland with a biological weapon of mass destruction, Matt and Annie weave through a circuitous adventure that keeps one turning pages and trying to remember to breath. The suspense is almost unbearable and the whole plot is so well written and realistic that one feels they have opened a book with "For Your Eyes Only" scrawled across it. Out of the Ashes' is a truly fantastic tale. It lets us look into the murky world of al Qaida and marvel at the depth of their fanaticism and takes us thru the complex of our own intelligence network. The Navy Seals do their legendary best and the code breakers work away, unsung but celebrated in our hearts. It is a story of the best and the worst that man can do; luckily, honor, integrity and sheer courage perseveres. It is filled with riveting action that makes for a wonderful read, one can hope that Allen writes another one,and soon.