Fading Light — Jim Miller

Iran is preparing to enter the nuclear community that is not in the least pleased by its desire to do so. Iran claims a peaceful energy source the purpose of their nuclear development, while the Grand Ayatollah and his puppet Ahmadinejad plan to rain North Korean built rockets on Israel. The task of stopping another holocaust falls to Mossad director Avi Ben Jacob who is hamstrung in that the Iranian nuclear facility is buried under a mountain in Fordow, Iran. Conventional weapons will not answer this time and Ben Jacob is forced to consider a reportedly failed US Army project he learned about from a former President. Three young, ambitious Army officers shepherd Operation Fading Light: Roland Blasingame and Ronald Ellsbury because of the general's stars in their eyes and the third, Joseph Harper, an incredibly brilliant First Lieutenant who discovered and then expanded on the original thesis of the operation. A mishap during the project causes the Army to shut it down and bury it. Now eighteen of the original twenty 'volunteers' of Fading Light have died when they shouldn't have and from precisely the same disease. Two of the original 'volunteers, now GAO accountant, Dominik Vohs and Navy SEAL, Clayton Butler, find out, separately that the migraines that they have been having since the close of Fading Light are actually the trigger that proves that the project wasn't necessarily a failure. Ben Jacob learns of these two from his American contact, Blasingame and feels he has no choice but to attempt to recruit the two for their 'special' talents. Blasingame and Harper have by now earned general's stars and hold sensitive Pentagon positions while Ellsbury, always a politician to the core, is the White House Chief of Staff. Blasingame and Ellsbury task Harper to keep the lid on the dead GI's, however Harper has an agenda of his own. Iranian assassins and home grown 'wet work' Delta level agents sent by Harper stalk anyone who has become even remotely involved in the aftermath of Fading Light. Seemingly innocuous people are murdered and though Butler and Vohs finally agree to help Israel, they face the deadly fact of the 'special' side effects that Harper has prepared for all of his 'volunteers'.