The CIA's best covert operative is pressed back into service to stop a secret alliance forming with catastrophic consequences to the United States in Jeffrey Stephens's exciting new ripped-from-the-headlines thriller.Although not fully recovered from the injuries he suffered while preventing a terrorist attack in Targets of Deception--Stephens's self-published first novel--Jordan Sandor returns into service when an Iranian defector brings word of a secret alliance among Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela. Vince Flynn raves, 'Jeffrey Stephens has arrived with a ripping, good yarn of intrigue that will keep you turning the pages all the way to its explosive ending.'