Secret justice James W. Huston
Publisher: New York : William Morrow, c2003.
ISBN: 0060008377
DDC: 813.54
LCC: PS3558
Edition: (acid-free paper)
Summary:
"Lieutenant Kent "Rat" Rathman is back. In the middle of the desert,
in the dead of night, Lieutenant Rathman parachutes with his Special
Forces team into Sudan, where an arms merchant is selling weapons to
Wahamed Duar, the world's most wanted man in the ongoing War on
Terrorism. Duar escapes, but a key member of his organization is
captured. Determined to find Duar, Rat uses questionable means of
persuasion to uncover his whereabouts and the information leads to
his capture. But the man he brutally interrogated later dies as a
result on a U. S. Navy ship." "Washington is thrilled with Duar's
capture, but a slick European lawyer with the International Criminal
Court asserts that Rat violated international law and fundamental
human rights. The Secretary of Defense sees an opportunity to gain
political ground against his rival in the National Security Agency by
taking her friend Rat down a notch; he decides to throw Rat to the
wolves. Rat is arrested and put on trial for torturing a prisoner and
violating the Geneva Convention. As he goes on trial for war crimes,
Wahamed Duar begins his own trial, the first major tribunal conducted
by the military to take place aboard the USS Belleau Wood. Duar may
be a prisoner, but he still has big plans. According to the National
Security Agency, his network appears to be involved in an attempt to
gather radioactive cores from abandoned Russian nuclear generators
for use in a dirty bomb." "As the parallel trials begin to boil,
Duar's men prepare to strike. But is it Duar who is actually on
trial? And who is gathering abandoned nuclear cores in the Georgian
Republic? Only Rat can put the pieces together, but can he protect
the United States from the impending attack while defending himself
in a secret courtroom on the top floor of the Department of
Justice?"--BOOK JACKET.
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