Warriors : An Alex Hawke Novel

When an elderly professor at Cambridge is found murdered, a victim of bizarre, ancient Chinese torture, Alex Hawke teams up with his MI6 colleague and friend Ambrose Congreve to find the killer. But they soon realize that this is only the beginning.In the United States the president has begun acting strangely.Could it be early onset dementia? Or is something far more sinister manipulating him? Meanwhile, tensions are mounting between China, North Korea and the U.S. On a Chinese megayacht armed drones destined for a terror cell plot of devastating proportions are discovered just in time to foil their plans. In the East China Sea, a North Korean patrol crew has boarded a U.S.Navy vessel, murdering four innocent sailors. And now China has launched a group of fighter jets and a mega aircraft carrier vastly more sophisticated than anything we've seen before.Somehow, in just a few short years, their military technology has eclipsed that developed by the U.S. and Great Britain. Now it's up to Hawke to find and stop the source of their advancement.Hawke believes China's recent innovations could be linked to the disappearance of the brilliant American scientist William Case, who - along with his entire family - was kidnapped off the streets in D.C. four years ago. Now Hawke must infiltrate the Chinese underground, bypass their military and rescue the scientist before the eruption of World War III.