Red Syndrome by Haggai Carmon

Red Syndrome by Haggai Carmon

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Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the world has become all too familiar with the increasingly sophisticated calculus of terror - suicide bombers, beheadings, attacks on mass transit, the leveling of hotels and nightclubs - in which the end game is maximum civilian casualties achieved with minimum technological effort. In Haggai Carmon's timely new thriller, The Red Syndrome, that calculus is deployed to its logical and frighteningly simple conclusion: Introduce a biological weapon into the nation's food supply in a way that had never before been imagined. Until now.

The sequel to Carmon's Triple Identity, The Red Syndrome reintroduces readers to ex-Mossad agent Dan Gordon, a dual Israeli- U.S. citizen living in the United States and working for the U.S. Department of Justice. Like Triple Identity, The Red Syndrome begins with Gordon on the trail of what appears to be a relatively straightforward case of money laundering. But in the Byzantine world of dirty money and offshore accounts, crime breeds strange bedfellows, and Gordon's investigation into the financial malfeasance of the Russian mob turns quickly into a hunt for a weapon of bioterror, and the Iranian-backed Islamic fundamentalist splinter group threatening to unleash it.