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An award-winning foreign correspondent for CNN plunges his alter ego, TV reporter Peter Dees, into Saddam Hussein's Iraq, where he becomes the target of an international conspiracy when he attempts to expose Hussein's military arsenal.

orld's most intrepid journalists, Charles Jaco has risked his life reporting from behind the borders of more than forty countries. Jaco knows firsthand the shady politics that often hide the truth from the public. Now, in Dead Air, his first novel, he blends international intrigue with a chillingly plausible plot to create the most action-packed thriller of the year.

Summer 1990. Saddam Hussein is stockpiling an arsenal of terror. Someone is covertly selling him the chemicals needed to make deadly biological weapons. Veteran TV correspondent Peter Dees--hard-living, wisecracking, eager for a break--seizes the story. But his sources, many of them his friends, are dying one by one, shot in the head execution-style.

Determined to uncover the truth behind these slayings, Dees himself becomes a target in an insidious emerging plot. From Port-au-Prince and Cairo to the scorched deserts of Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Dees finds the conspiracy much deeper than he ever imagined as he disco