Larry Bond's First Team: Angels of Wrath »

LARRY BOND is the author of numerous bestselling thrillers, including Vortex, Red Phoenix, The Enemy Within, and Dangerous Ground. A former naval intelligence officer, warfare analyst, and antisubmarine technology expert, he makes his home in Springfield, Virginia.

JIM DEFELICE has previously collaborated with Stephen Coonts and Dale Brown, and has also written numerous solo novels. He lives in New York State.

New York Times bestselling authors Larry Bond and Jim DeFelice deliver fresh thrills and unexpected twists in this latest installment of their electrifying series, Larry Bond’s First Team: Angels of Wrath.

Led by CIA agent par excellence Bob Ferguson, the Team pitches in to help the FBI investigate a radical group of zealots who want to create a “post-Christian” era by instigating a catastrophic showdown in Jerusalem. But Ferg and company soon discover the cult has strange connections to the Iraqi resistance and to a Syrian arms dealer. Enlisting the help of Thera Majed, a beautiful paramilitary and an expert on Middle eastern relations, the team breaks up to track each link. They seek to stop anything catastrophic from happening before the President arrives in Iraq for the next round of elections. Their quarries lead Team members into an immensely complicated world of fanatical terrorists, each potentially dangerous. . . but who among them is the next to strike? Uncertain of the most imminent threat, the Team finds that they have landed in the midst of an operation headed by Israel’s famous Mossad, and are ordered to cooperate with the Israelis . . . but are the Israelis cooperating with them?

Unsure of their allies, the Team realizes that they are on the trail of two completely different attacks whose targets are thousands of miles apart. Both operations are intended to trigger a vast religious war. With the clock ticking down, can the team extinguish the spark of Armageddon?

Publishers Weekly

In Bond and DeFelice's fast-paced, complex thriller, the team of elite operatives introduced in the authors' Larry Bond's First Team (2004) takes on a group of apocalyptic terrorists known as the Seven Angels, who aim to set off a religious war. Team leader Bob Ferguson and his cohorts jump all over the Middle East in search of arms dealers who might be supplying Russian missiles to the Angels as well as an elusive Iraqi politician who may be the key to the Angels' plot. They must also deal with threats to the U.S. president as he visits Baghdad. The shifting viewpoints can be confusing, but the authors skillfully use dialogue to animate their characters, as in the flirtatious exchanges between Bob and Middle East expert Thera Majid. Further to the authors' credit, the book explores the intricacies of Muslim faith and culture with more sensitivity than many similar thrillers. (Jan.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.