At once frightening in its real possibilities, this multi-layered story brings terrorism to its ultimate madness. Just as corruption crumbled the great Roman Empire from within, the two 20th Century superpowers-Russia and the United States-teeter on ever rotting moral underpinnings, and in a struggle to dominate their New World spheres of influence in the 21st Century ignite radical Old World hatred.

Two former enemies in the Middle East-Iraq and Iran-join forces in the spirit of Islamic fundamentalism to punish the great infidels-Russia and America. They recruit an American Chechen fighting Russia's suppression of Chechnya and fund a series of missions to destabilize Moscow's hold over the former Soviet empire. One is a plausible explanation for the underwater explosion that sunk the Kursk nuclear submarine. His main mission, however, is to assassinate President Vladimir Putin on American soil following the presidential election in 2000, when the results are so harrowing that it is weeks before Americans know who their next president is. Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Kambiz Abbasi hope that the murder of the Russian leader will throw these old enemies back in arms against each other and deflect attention from their regimes. Learning about the Chechen's plot, Putin sends out a KGB-trained butcher to hunt down this fleet-footed freedom fighter.

Meanwhile, in the United States, events unfold that color the country's honor bloody red. Good and evil merge in a mishmash of broken ideals and fanatic delusions. While a rogue mercenary, hired by a discontented splinter group that wants the 17th amendment revoked, unleashes a series of explosions that kill high-profile Washington targets, subversive political forces organize to fix the Bush-Gore election. This underworld of greedy power brokers called the Lexington Compact crosses into "black" CIA territory, using former assassins to cover their dirty tricks, and pitted against them is the FBI's Domestic Terrorism Unit, a team that is hog-tied by bureaucratic posturing. They are incredibly inept except for the help of three former special forces agents, who come out of retirement and end up beyond the law rendering proper justice in this new world without rules.

This thriller rockets from fact to fiction like a "live" exercise in terrorist anarchy. If anything, the "Rogue State" presents the best-case scenario as to why President Bush feels justified in raising his saber against those threatening terrorism.

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