When the Americans discover that the director of a French intelligence agency has secret investments in the Bank of Palestine, suspicions arise. It'll take the best of the best to unravel the tangle of espionage the enemy has taken great care to launder. That means Tommy Carmellini. And they'll have to take Jake Grafton out of retirement as well. Together, they will uncover an elaborate strategy to infiltrate the highest levels of Al-Quaeda with a top-level plant - but who is playing whom? Grafton and Carmellinin unearth a horrifying plan to shake the West as never before.

Stephen Coonts, the author of thirteen international bestsellers, is a former naval aviator and Vietnam combat vet. The Traitor is vintage Coonts - intrigue, action and military thrills at break-neck speed and edge-of-the-seat suspense.