Book excerpt: When the CIA learns that a renegade operative has gone berserk in the Balkans and is fanning the flames of war, they send in Mick Pierce to eliminate him. The only problem is that the operative is Mick's double-crossing brother Alec. Can Mick stop his brother and halt the march of armies? Mick races through the underworld of Serbia, Hungary, Romania, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece trying to avert a global catastrophe…only to learn that the CIA has double-crossed him!