Oliver North - The Jericho Sanction (International Intrigue Trilogy #2)

"Another great read from Ollie North, I couldn 'tput it down. "

SeanHannity

Best-selling author of Let Freedom Ring and host o/"Hannity & Colmes" on the FOX News Channel

t:ColPeterNewman,USMC,andhis family are threatened when his cover is

,_____blown. While preparing for a clandestine

'U.S.missiontofindIraqinuclearweapons, Newman's wife Rachel is kidnapped in Jerusalem.

When Israel discovers that Iraq has nukes, they ' \ a preemptive strike on Baghdad with Jericho missiles. If that happens it could trigger a Middle East war that could go global.

Only one man knows all the pieces of the puzzle, but he is a target on the move. Newman has to choose whether to go ahead with the mission or abandon it to find and rescue his wife. Iraq races to attack Israel. Washington and Jerusalem engage in frantic, last-minute diplomacy. It seems as if nothing can prevent Armageddon. *~ .

OLIVER L. NORTH is a New York Times best-selling author, the host of War Stories on the FOX News Channel, and a war correspondent for the Fox News Network. His novels, The Jericho Sanction and Mission Compromised, are stories of intrigue, espionage, and military adventure drawn from his own experience as a combat decorated Marine and as the Counter-Terrorism Coordinator for the United States from 1983-1986.

JOE MUSSER has authored or coauthored nearly forty books and more than twenty screenplays. He also is coauthor of Mission Compromised.

www.broadmanholman.eom/01iverNorth

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"Another great read from Ollie North, I couldn 't put it down."

Sean Hannity

Best-selling author of Let Freedom Ring and host of "Hannity & Colmes" oh the FOX News Channel

dCol Peter Newman, USMC, and his family are threatened when his cover is blown. While preparing for a clandestine U.S. mission to find Iraqi nuclear weapons, Newman's wife Rachel is kidnapped in Jerusalem.

When,Israel discovers that Iraq has nukes, they plan a preemptive strike on Baghdad with Jericho missiles. If that happens it could trigger a Middle East war that could go global.

Only one man knows all the pieces of the puzzle, but he is a target on the move. Newman has to choose whether to go ahead with the mission or abandon it to find and rescue his wife. Iraq races to attack Israel. Washington and Jerusalem engage in frantic, last-minute diplomacy. It seems as if nothing can prevent Armageddon.

OLIVER L. NORTH is a New York Ttmes best-selling author, the host of War Stories on the FOX News Channel, and a war correspondent for the Fox News Network. His novels, The Jericho Sanction and Mission Compromised, are stories of intrigue, espionage, and military adventure drawn from his own experience as a combat decorated Marine and as the Counter-Terrorism Coordinator for the United States from 1983-1986.

JOE.MUSSER has authored or coauthored nearly forty books and more than twenty screenplays. He also is coauthor of Mission Compromised.

www.broadmanholman.com/01iverNorth

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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE JERICHO SANCTION

"Another great read from OJJie North. I couldn't put it down." Sean Hannity

FOX News' "Hannity & Cnl " >'

'reedom Ring

PRAISE FOR MISSION COMPROMISED .

"A Tom Clancy-esque tale of White House intrigue."

The New York Times

"A little payback, perhaps, for some of the controversial ex-Marin-treatment by the Beltway establishment?"

Publishers Weekly

"A political thriller."

USA Today "A Tom Clancy-like thriller."

The Dallas Morning News

"A sly thriller."

James Brady

Parade Magazine, Author of Warning of War

"Ente.

staining."

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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE JERICHO SANCTION

"Another great read from Ollie North. I couldn't put it down."

Sean Hannity

FOX News' "Hannity & Colmes," Author of Let Freedom Ring

"A Tom Clancy-esque tale of White House intrigue.

The New York Times

"A little payback, perhaps, for some of the controversial ex-Marine's treatment by the Beltway establishment?"

Publishers Weekly

"A political thriller."

USA Today

"A Tom Clancy-like thriller."

The Dallas Morning News

"A sly thriller."

James Brady

Parade Magazine, Author of Warning of War

"Entertaining."

Christian Retailing

"Absorbing scenario combining recent events and fiction so seamlessly as to leave readers wondering where the line between them lies."

CBA Marketplace

"A good thriller with a solid plot... a feeling of authenticity."

The Jerusalem Post

"Sends chills up my spine about how on target and current... Couldn't stop reading it."

Pine Bluff Commercial

"Combines the suspense of Tom Clancy with the drama of Blackhawk

Dowrk, the complexity of Mission Impossible, the dogged morality of High

Noor*.... The result is a story that causes the reader to wake up in the

middle of the night wondering how much of it is true."

Moody Magazine

"Filled with action, intrigue, and events that could have been taken from the headlines. This is a must-read."

Sean Hannity

FOX News' "Hannity & Colmes," Author of Let Freedom Ring

"An exciting, solid, action-packed adventure about a Marine who, like the author, knows the meaning of Semper Fidelis."

Joe Foss, Brig. Gen. USMC (Ret.) WWII Ace and Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient

read.... A primer to the hidden works and inner mechanisms of the White House and the National Security Council."

General Charles C. Krulak, USMC (Ret.)

31st Commandant of the Marine Corps

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Publishers NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

2003 by Oliver L. North

All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America

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Published by Broadman & Holman Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee

Dewey Decimal Classification: F

Subject Heading: KIDNAPPINGFICTION MYSTERY FICTION MIDDLE EASTFICTION

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This is a fictional story. Use or mention of historical events, places, or names of public figures is done solely for the purpose of placing the story within a time frame or geographic region. Any similarity of the story line to actual events is coincidental.

For Betsy,

who once again waited and prayed while I went off to another war

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 07 06 05 04 03

In Memoriam

S^Xperation Iraqi Freedom began on 21 March 2003 with a night m ^helo-borne assault against Saddam Hussein's forces in the V_>^ vicinity of Basra on the Faw Peninsula. As the attack commenced, a sandstorm and smoke from oil wells set afire by Saddams forces reduced visibility to near zero. Shortly thereafter, the third USMC CH-46E helicopter in our flight crashed, killing all the U.S. Marines and Royal Marine Commandos aboard.

This book is dedicated to the memory of the four U.S. Marines of HMM 268 and the eight members of the Royal Marine Commando contingent who were the first casualties of the war to liberate Iraq.

U.S. MARINES:

Major Jay Thomas Aubin, 36 (Waterville, Maine)

Captain Ryan Anthony Beaupre, 30 (St. Anne, Illinois)

Staff Sergeant Kendall Damon Waters-Bey, 29 (Baltimore, Maryland)

Corporal Brian Matthew Kennedy, 25 (Houston, Texas)

ROYAL MARINE COMMANDOS:

Major Jason Ward

Captain Philip Stuart Guy

Warrant Officer Mark Stratford

Color Sergeant John Cecil Operations Mechanic 2nd Class Ian Seymour