Hydra2: ....Another two heads

Hydra 2, James Jan's second novel about international terrorism, covers an extensive geographical and political span. A secret Taliban planning and command base in the remote northeast of Afghanistan in the fooothills of the mighty Karakoram mountains, and a staging post for the supply of smuggled Korean uranium on its way to Iran's nuclear programme, becomes the latest target of London's Special Forces Unit and Major Mike Roberts and the SAS. Intelligence partners in the west offer an opportunity to break the route and set back Iran's plans for its nuclear arsenal...but it will involve the recruitment and defection of a senior Korean official.