Beneath The Rings

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Doha 2040 Summer Olympics are supposed to be about gold medals and global unity. Instead they kick off a descent into terror when twelve Israeli and Lebanese athletes vanish leaving behind only the chilling threat of </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Obsidian Hand </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>and an impossible </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>$500 billion ransom</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. Veteran journalist </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nova Mendelsohn</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> finds herself entangled with a cryptic Ancient Arabic note and a mysterious local merchant forced to race the clock. Her pursuit of the truth will take her from the glittering Olympic Village into the city's darkest corners and onto the blood-soaked sands of the desert where a </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>centuries-old vengeance</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> threatens to ignite a catastrophic final act. What secrets lie beneath the surface of the Games and what will it cost Nova to uncover them?</span></p>