Point of Honor

In Point of Honor, Saddam Hussein plots revenge against his enemies six years after the Gulf War. A new and far more virulent form of VX nerve gas, called the City Killer by western analysts, is finally produced in quantity. With the last of his SCUD missiles, Saddam plans to launch a devastating attack. A clandestine rendezvous between a Han Class Chinese submarine and an Iraqi freighter to deliver the Chinese produced nerve agent takes place in the Northern Gulf. Something goes terribly wrong and an errant U-2 spy plane photographs the results. Major Jim Harper leads a hastily assembled team back into Iraq. Harper faces dissension within his own team, uncertain support inside the intelligence community and a hostile welcome from the Al Amn al-Khas--Iraq's Special Security Service.