Colorado congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term of office quietly—when a political mole reveals to the world Kendrick s deepest secret...that Kendrick was the anonymous man in Masqar， the man who courageously freed the hostage held in the American embassy by Arab terrorists; the unknown hero who performed an act of outrageous daring then silently disappeared. Now， suddenly， Kendrick is a living target pursued by the terrorists he outwitted. Together with the beautiful woman who once saved his life， Kendrick enters a deadly arena where the only currency is blood， where frightened whispers speak of violence yet to come and where Kendrick s life—and the fate of the free world—may ultimately rest in the powerful hands of a mysterious and deadly figure known only as the Mahdi.From the Paperback edition.