Out of the Ashes
The 9/11 terrorist attacks are nearly a five-year-old memory. Although 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 the Phoenix, an
E. coli super-bacterium-based weapon of mass destruction. Instead of fanatical Muslim terrorists, they have recruited three young
American men to commit acts of bioterrorism without suspicion. Instead of targets like the World Trade Centers 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. President Richard Samuelson orders key task force agents army officer Matt Garret and government scientist
Annie Stewart to inflitrate al Qaida's operation in the Costa Rican tropics.
With only seven days left 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 thePhoenix and to stop al Qaida's diabolical plan before the Phoenix can rise Out of the Ashes.