Chiefs-one now in India and the other in Dubai, but both formerly posted in Pakistan-converge in love triangles and dangerous intrigue as the world erupts with nuclear tests, terrorist attacks, covert intelligence operations, corporate power chess, attempted assassinations, and murder.

As this very human, yet action filled journey unfolds across India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Dubai, London, Washington DC, Houston, Palestine, and southern Italy, it paints on the broader landscape the West's proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, government agents trafficking heroin out of Afghanistan to cover the cost of those weapons, and laundered profits in the billions making their way to corporate Wall Street. In addition to the drug profits, the primary end justifying those means is ownership of the drilling rights and the pipeline from the Caspian Sea to route the black silk east and control the profits in providing oil and LNG to energystarved India and China. When the coveted Caspian Sea region, thought to be the last great reserve of untapped oil is found to be a bust, the story ends on a chilling note of the options facing the Western world-options spelled out in a CIA hypothetical war-game known only to a very few.

Not only is The Black Silk Road an engaging and complex plot about the power driven tensions in our modern world, it is an important story that weaves through truth and actual events. A rich and sensitive exploration of the Islamic culture of today emerges as it collides with the West. Strong characters come alive to be embedded in memory. This is a story without clichés'
one side is not good and the other evil. The Black Silk Road gives terrorism a human face treating that perpetrated by the Islamic East in as honest, real, and even-handed manner as the terrorism of the corporate-covert intelligence driven-militarized West.