<p>Israeli Military Intelligence agents Eytan Eckstein and Benni Baum are about to conclude a delicate prisoner swap between Israel and her nemesis Iran. &nbsp;But when a suicide bombing at the Israeli embassy in New York throws the plan into chaos they discover the involvement of Martina Klump a vicious German terrorist who has an old score to settle with Baum. &nbsp;If Eckstein and Baum can&rsquo;t stop her Klump will not only thwart the prisoner swap but ignite an all-out war between Israel and Iran.</p><p><strong>Steven Hartov</strong>&nbsp;was born in the United States and educated at Boston University. &nbsp;After serving in the U.S. Military Sealift Command he emigrated to Israel and served in the Israel Defense Forces parachute corps and Military Intelligence special operations. &nbsp;He is the author of the espionage trilogy &ldquo;The Heat of Ramadan&rdquo; &ldquo;The Nylon Hand of God&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Devil&rsquo;s Shepherd&rdquo; and co-author of the New York Times best seller &ldquo;In the Company of Heroes&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Night Stalkers.&rdquo; &nbsp;For six years Hartov helmed &ldquo;Special Operations Report&rdquo; as Editor-in-Chief. &nbsp;He currently serves as a Task Force commander in the New York Guard and is writing a new novel. &nbsp;</p><p><em>A superior thriller dark and exciting. . . . The finest sort of espionage thriller.</em></p><p>- Publishers Weekly</p><p><em>Suspenseful action and twisty plotting. . . . a fine beat-the-devil tale</em>.</p><p>-Kirkus Reviews</p><p><em>The gripping take full of twists and turns rockets from New York to Washington D.C. to Casablanca and thence to the Algerian Sahara. &nbsp;It&rsquo;s climax is a hair-raiser.</em></p><p>-Lake Oswego Review</p>