He doesn’t buy the official line that Middle Eastern terrorists are behind the attack and begins his own campaign to find the truth and exact revenge. Only one agent has survived: ex–Navy SEAL Scot Harvath. On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the President of the United States has been kidnapped and his Secret Service detail massacred. Simultaneously in Colorado, a foreign spy is close to penetrating the mysterious secret the US government has hidden beneath Denver International Airport.Īs Casey, Ericsson, Rhodes, and Cooper close in on their target, they will soon learn that another attack-one of unimaginable proportions-has already been set in motion, and the greatest threat they face may be the secrets kept by their own government. Surrounded by monoliths covered with Runic symbols, one of America’s greatest fears appears to have come true. In the jungles of South America, a young US intelligence officer has made a grisly discovery.

But there is more to the story than anyone knows. When a terrorist attack in Rome kills more than twenty Americans, Athena Team members Gretchen Casey, Julie Ericsson, Megan Rhodes, and Alex Cooper are tasked with hunting down the Venetian arms dealer responsible for providing the explosives. Part of a top-secret, all-female program codenamed The Athena Project,four of Delta’s best and brightest women are about to undertake one of the nation’s deadliest assignments. Just as skilled, just as fearsome, and just as deadly as their colleagues, Delta Force’s newest members have only one thing setting them apart-their gender. And not a moment too soon.įrom behind the rows of razor wire, a new breed of counterterrorism operator has emerged. The world’s most elite counterterrorism unit has just taken its game to an entirely new level.

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