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2010., Emerald Book Company Call No: QWF Fic Lan Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Based in part on a true story, Havana Harvest follows the maneuvers of two adversarial intelligence services in their attempts to inflict maximum damage on each other as they move through a maze of high-tension suspense. In Cuba, General Patricio Casas must decide whether to support the revolution he has fought against for so many years or do what is good for his people and challenge the selfish authoritarianism of the Castroite regime. Meanwhile, CIA operative Robert Lonsdale is tasked with determining why a captain in Fidels armywho recently arrived in Miami with a suitcase full of moneyseeks U.S. protection from a Colombian drug cartel and the Cuban secret police. Lonsdale is quickly drawn into a maelstrom of intrigue and murder from which there seems to be no escapeunless he can convince General Casas to help. Apparently double-crossed by his colleagues and a self-serving Agency director, Lonsdale struggles on alone in an attempt to outfox the shadowy tormentors who intend to silence him forever.
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2012., AuthorHouse Call No: Fic Lan Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Baghdad, October 2001. Chemical ali, Saddam Hussein's cousin, has a weapon of mass destruction - human, new variety Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (Mad Cow) against which there is no known cure. Ali plans to weaponize the virus in bulk, disguised as surgical flue, at a Hungarian facility, but first needs a vaccine to protect the True Believers against this deadly virus. He learns that the Canadian scientist, Jason Moscovitch, is feverishly working on such a vaccine. Ali recruits an Al Qaeda Snatch Team, comprised of Iraqi, Bosnian and Jordanian elements, who kidnap the man. When the scientist refuses to work for the extremists the team kidnaps his mother as well. Robert Londale, a contract officer with the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Division, is asked to find and free Moscovitch. But, to succeed, he must first penetrate the unbelievably complex web of Islamic Factionalists involved in the case.
