Assassins: A Tale of Love and War

Product Description From its riveting start in the night skies of Afghanistan to its stunning end in the recent Paris terrorist attacks, Assassins is an insider's story of the last 30 years of war between Islam and the West. A US commando, a French woman doctor, a Russian major, a British female journalist, a top CIA operator, an Afghani woman, and a Taliban warlord fight for their lives and loves in the dangerous streets and lethal deserts of the Middle East.Drop by parachute into the deadly mountains of Afghanistan, feel the passion of love when at any instant you both can die, experience the bone-chilling fear of an American agent in an Al Qaeda group and of women who face death every day, fight door to door in the bloody cities of Iraq, know the terror of battle inside a Russian tank - it's all there, all real, in Assassins.Did the Saudis finance 9/11? Did GW Bush let Osama bin Laden escape Afghanistan and then lie about Weapons of Mass Destruction so he could invade Iraq? Did Obama's decision to leave Iraq in 2011 lead to the rise of ISIS? It's all there, all real, in Assassins. Review "An exhilarating spy novel that offers equal amounts of ingenuity and intrigue." - Kirkus (Featured Review) "Packs one thrilling punch after the other. But equally important in making the novel an especially memorable one, are the numerous supporting characters... A first-rate thriller. - Book Chase "Powerful, true to life, and explosive... A story that could be ripped right out of the headlines." - Just Reviews "Mike Bond writes with an urgency few other authors have been able to maintain. Mailer was able to do it to some degree. Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson had their ears to the ground. But Mike Bond has assumed this mantle for the 21st century." - BookTrib "Assassins can be terrifying, chilling and more, but it also will enlighten its readers... It's an eye-opener, a page-turner." - CultureBuzz "An epic spy story... rife with tension and feeling... A cohesive and compelling story of political intrigue, religious fanaticism, love, brotherhood and the ultimate pursuit of peace." - Honolulu Star-Advertiser "A thrilling read in which tension never relaxes.. that will sear the reader's memory long after the last page is turned! Highly recommended, well-crafted fiction that tells the vivid story of an endless war!" - Crystal Book Reviews "Riveting, thrilling, and... so realistic and fast-paced that the reader felt as if they were actually there... Definitely not the propaganda spewed out by CNN and the other major news sources over the last 10-15 years... This book was earth-shattering for me." - NetGalley "The action is outstanding and realistic. The suspense flows from page to page... Wow, I wish everyone could read and understand this book." - Goodreads About the Author M I K E B O N D is the author of nearly a dozen best-selling novels, a war and human rights journalist, ecologist, international energy expert and award-winning poet. He has been called the master of the existential thriller (BBC), one of America's best thriller writers (Culture Buzz), a nature writer of the caliber of Matthiessen (WordDreams), and one of the 21st Century's most exciting authors (Washington Times). He has covered wars, revolutions, terrorism, military dictatorships and death squads in the Middle East, Latin America, Asia and Africa, and environmental issues including elephant poaching, habitat loss, wilderness survival, whales, wolves and many other endangered species. His novels place the reader in intense experiences in the world's most perilous places, in dangerous liaisons, political and corporate conspiracies, wars and revolutions, making readers sweat with [their] relentless pace (Kirkus) in that fatalistic margin where life and death are one and the existential reality leaves one caring only to survive. (Sunday Oregonian). He has climbed mountains on every continent and trekked more than 50,000 miles in the Himalayas, Mongoli