Bargain With the Devil

<p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Retired U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Peter Avakian is in Africa. Having accepted a contract to protect an abrasive South African oil executive in Nigeria he foils a kidnapping plot and neatly extracts the man from the country. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Summoned to a meeting in Cape Town that he imagines is a thank-you and a payoff Peter is instead invited to join a group of British and South African mercenaries intent on staging a political coup in the West African country of Benin that-it later becomes clear-is being financed by Nigerian drug runners Russian gun smugglers and South African oil interests.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Now that he's heard the proposal Peter needs to both protect and cover his behind. So he turns to the CIA. And as he could have predicted he's pressured to become their mole inside the coup plot.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>But how far is Peter willing to go? And how far can he go and </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>still stay alive</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>? In the end Peter's survival may depend on two women: a CIA officer and a South African reporter. Whether they will save him or betray him is anyone's guess.</span></p>