Brutal Fantasies

A bomb slaughters American intelligence officers, their wives, and children. Irish-American CIA officer John Darcy seizes the opportunity to redeem his failed professional and personal life by finding and eliminating the terrorist. Darcy plunges deeper into an undercover operation that the CIA will disown should he fail. He's on his own in a terrorist world that operates according to its own rules. His quest forces him to confront not only the fanaticism of the bomber but also the woman who rejected him, the God he rejected, and the truths of his own clandestine operations. In this stunning psychological thriller, John Hands takes us on a powerful journey of suspense which forces a man to choose between the most precious thing in his life and his own redemption. "Why are John Hands's beautifully crafted thrillers (Darkness at Dawn, Perestroika Christi), which are published in hardcover in England to much critical acclaim, issued only as paperbacks in the United States? Whatever the reason, this has to be the best reading bargain in the business...