Counterblow

HIGH STAKES

The upsurge in high-grade heroin on the West Coast is ringing alarm bells all over Washington. It's clear there's a new player at the table, someone setting up a Turkish heroin pipeline through Pakistan. One man's war just found a new battlefield.

With only sketchy Intel supplied by a suspected spook on the take, Mack Bolan picks up the white line in Central Asia--and taps the source: a former KGB agent gone off the deep end, following his capitalist dream of becoming the world's reigning drug lord.

With a fortune in opium locked in Pakistan's war-torn terrain, a lot of high rollers have a stake in the game: the CIA, the DEA, the KGB--and Bolan. There are no rules for this kind of house party. The Executioner is making up a few of his own.