The Icarus Agenda - Robert Ludlum

In the Sultanate of Oman over two hundred hostages are being held – and the world looks on in helpless terror as the madness begins. The spirit of the Mahdi is abroad. intent on complete financial and political domination.

Evan Kendrick. a quiet Congressman from Colorado. is an unlikely hero. but in his past is a violence that he cannot forget. On the other side of the world. five very unusual rich people are meeting. They are the Inheritors of Inver Brass. their aim to utterly transform the world. They seek a new saviour. an innocent messiah – and Evan Kendrick is to be their unwilling victim …