Dick Barnes

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". . . his reaction was automatic; instinctive. He pushed the bolt closed as he placed the crosshairs on the truck. The necessary adjustments for range and the drop in altitude were made instantly. The echo of the big .300 WinMag cartridge crackled through the canyons like desert thunder, and the left headlight of the pickup exploded in a silvery cloud. A second later the right headlight followed suit. He slammed the third round into the rifle's chamber . . ." Thus John McClernand, raised by his Navajo grandfather to become the clan tracker and hunter, is thrust into an adventure that will take him from the high deserts of Arizona into the heart of the Caribbean. A Marine Corps Recon Team sniper, John will be moved by his personal sense of destiny to join a group of mercenaries, some of them Vietnam veterans, on a covert mission tasked with destroying a secret biological warfare center in Havana. He cannot foresee that he and his companions will find themselves cut off from CIA resources; forced to become the allies of Cuban dissidents veterans of that island nation's war in Angola and with the very scientists whom they were sent to "neutralize."