Einen Tag nach Ablauf des westlichen Ultimatums an Saddam Hussein greifen alliierte Bomber irakische Stellungen an. Während alle Welt die »Operation Wüstensturm « erwartet, kämpft eine Handvoll Männer fieberhaft darum, die Menschheit vor einer Katastrophe zu bewahren. Mike Martin, einem britischen SAS-Major und Spitzel im besetzten Kuweit, gelingt es unterdessen, Kontakt zu dem mysteriösen Spion "Jericho" aufzunehmen. Er erfährt, dass Hussein im Besitz der "Qubth-ut-Allah" ist, der "Faust Gottes", wie dieser die Atombombe nennt. Martin bleiben genau vier Tage, um die "Faust Gottes" zu finden und zu zerstören . . .
From the bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal, international master of intrigue Frederick Forsyth, comes a thriller that brilliantly blends fact with fiction for one of this summer's-or any season's-most explosive reads!
From the behind-the-scenes decision-making of the Allies to the secret meetings of Saddam Hussein's war cabinet, from the brave American fliers running their dangerous missions over Iraq to the heroic young spy planted deep in the heart of Baghdad, Forsyth's incomparable storytelling skill keeps the suspense at a breakneck pace. Somewhere in Baghdad is the mysterious "Jericho," the traitor who is willing-for a price-to reveal what is going on in the high councils of the Iraqi dictator. But Saddam's ultimate weapon has been kept secret even from his most trusted advisers, and the nightmare scenario that haunts General Schwarzkopf and his colleagues is suddenly imminent, unless somehow, the spy can locate that weapon-The Fist of God-in time.
Peopled with vivid characters, brilliantly displaying Forsyth's incomparable, knowledge of intelligence operations and tradecraft, moving back and forth
between Washington and London, Baghdad and Kuwait, desert vastnesses and city bazaars, this breathtaking novel is an utterly convincing story of what may
actually have happened behind the headlines.
