Deep Black #06: Conspiracy

Assassination

A Secret Service agent is dead, an apparent suicide. A presidential candidate narrowly escapes an assassins bullet. And Desk Three, a convert branch of the NSA, is searching for a chilling connection deep inside The Republic of Vietnam.

Interrogation

Once, Charlie Dean was a Marine sniper in Quang Nam Province. Today hes a Deep Black operator, returning to Vietnam to find the source of some threatening e-mails. Instead, he comes face to face with a man he had once hunted down…and thought he had killed.

FEAR FOR THE NATION…

Back in the U.S., Deep Black agent Lia DeFrancesca has uncovered the trail of a killer in Deans path. Now, with every asset, weapon, bug and high-tech magic wand Desk Three can wave, the agents enter a terrifying global race against time. Because ghosts of the past have risen to life…to strike a death blow into the heart of the U.S.A.

“Coonts knows how to write and build suspense.”

—The New York Times Book Review

Visit Stephen Coonts Web site at: www.coonts.com

A Secret Service agent is dead, an apparent suicide. A presidential candidate narrowly escapes an assassins bullet. And Desk Three, a convert branch of the NSA, is searching for a chilling connection deep inside The Republic of Vietnam.

Once, Charlie Dean was a Marine sniper in Quang Nam Province. Today hes a Deep Black operator, returning to Vietnam to find the source of some threatening e-mails. Instead, he comes face to face with a man he had once hunted down…and thought he had killed.

Back in the U.S., Deep Black agent Lia DeFrancesca has uncovered the trail of a killer in Deans path. Now, with every asset, weapon, bug and high-tech magic wand Desk Three can wave, the agents enter a terrifying global race against time. Because ghosts of the past have risen to life…to strike a death blow into the heart of the U.S.A.

As a naval aviator, STEPHEN COONTS flew combat missions during the Vietnam War. A former attorney and the author of fifteen New York Times bestsellers, he lives with his wife and son in Nevada. Visit his Web site at www.coonts.com.

Deep Black co-author JIM DEFELICEs most recent solo effort is Threat Level Black. He lives in upstate New York and can be reached at jdchester@aol.com.