The Ghost Effect

A simple golf game at a high-priced country club was the last thing Aeron Callahan thought would set the world on fire. But when that's where an Islamist terrorist chooses to attack his target and abscond with the president's brother, the world might as well be a tank of nitroglycerin sitting on a fireworks barge.When a stunning revelation about the terrorist surfaces, the president, already in over his head, is left with few options. Acting on counsel from the Director of Central Intelligence, he reluctantly employs an operative known as Apollo. Though furious, Callahan leaves his operation in Venezuela to go play recovery specialist.Known as a Ghost in the CIA's ultra-elite counter-terrorism unit, The Ghost Section, he's among America's most effective covert operatives in the Islamist War. Born in the middle of the class war between American Aristocracy and the American Proletariat, Callahan has spent his entire life caught between both sides in societal no-man's land, molded into a natural-born covert operative. And he might well be the president's only hope.Working with his de facto partner, fellow Ghost Athena, Callahan uncovers the terrorist's real intention--an unthinkable attack that will kill scores of people and send shockwaves around the world. He races at breakneck speed to rescue the president's brother and prevent a bloodbath, all while dealing with Athena's growing temptations of a normal life, and the thoughts he once entertained. Thoughts long since banished to the darkest regions of his mind, never to see the light of day again.