Article III, Section III, Constitution of the United States of America :
Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
Treason: Disloyalty or treachery to one's country or its government; any attempt to overthrow the government or impair the well-being of a state to which one owes allegiance; the crime of giving aid or comfort to the enemies of one's government.
Matt Gannon is back and after Salal again. More by accident than design, Gannon has thwarted two of the
terrorist's major assaults on the United States. Now Gannon and his boss, Rufus Brandt, take the offensive
and the fight to Salal.
Pursuing Salal to his stronghold in the Middle East, Gannon throws caution to the wind, disobeys Brandt's orders
and orchestrates a hastily planned, eight-man clandestine operation to a wild, inaccessible region of the Hindu
Kush Mountains of Afghanistan. But the mission is compromised at the start. The tables are turned and suddenly
Gannon finds himself wounded, alone, and isolated in hostile territory. There appears to be no way out with
Salal, Machmued and their al Qu'ida allies hot on the CIA agent's heels.
It's the final clash between two men, each determined to destroy the other at any cost. This time, one of them must
certainly die.
Salal is back -- his methods more dangerous
and his hatred even deeper!
Salal, a high ranking terrorist operative, and Matt Gannon, a determined American warrior,
clash for a second time in a battle of revenge and fate. Cry Judas continues the
saga of The Jericho Gambit in a battle of cultures and values from which only
one way of life can emerge as the victor.
This time his target has an added focus. This time he is driven
by revenge as well as loathing of the Americans. Here is
retaliation that can only be ended by the disgrace and death of
his enemies - Malcolm DeFore, the National Security Advisor to
the President, General Rufus Brandt, the newly appointed
Director of the CIA, and Salal's personal nemesis, Matt Gannon,
the American Army officer turned CIA agent.
Spurred by the failure of Operation Jericho and driven by ego
and a consuming determination, Salal now leads a compulsive
vendetta that turns into an irreconcilable blood feud for personal
and family honor. He is determined to extract revenge on those
who have thwarted his efforts to strike a crippling blow to the
Great Satan, the United States of America. For every one of his
destroyed 200 man fedayeen Jericho force, he vows the death of
an American general officer as well as the extinction of their
immediate successors. He unleashes a silent, unsuspected killer
and holds the power of life and death in a battle that can have only
one ending - death to the Americans.
The obsession is real, the stakes high, and the action intense as
Matt Gannon and Salal violently collide for a second time.
The Jericho Gambit
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The Jericho Gambit is a fast moving, suspenseful story of military and political response to
an impending terrorist attack on the United States. Just as determined as Salal and his lieutenant,
Machmued, are to destroy a critical installation in the United States, General Brandt and Matt
Gannon are resolved to protect it. The Jericho Gambit is a watershed of different standards, of
vastly different lifestyles, of religious intolerance and political realities, and of cultural and moral
value in an irreconcilable encounter.
A shadow group of Islamic fundamentalists, grounded in a xenophobic hatred of the United
States, rule the Islamic Conference Organization, the ICO. Salal, a resourceful, radical Arab agent,
convinces the ICO that an attack on the United States' homeland will send the necessary political
and military signals to the American people. The ultimatum is clear -- abandon the Israeli State, get
out of the Middle East, or face the consequences of Jihad on American soil.
"Operation Jericho" is a surgical strike conducted by an untraceable force of multinational Arab terrorists
against a vital US target, the largest ammunition and special munitions terminal in the free
world. But the Americans haven't been asleep. Just as determined as Salal and his lieutenant,
Machmued, are to destroy the United States, General Rufus Brandt and Lieutenant Colonel
Matthew Gannon are resolved to protect it. The Jericho Gambit is a watershed of different standards,
of vastly different life styles, of religious intolerance and political realities, and of cultural and
moral value in an irreconcilable encounter.
Frederick F. Meyers, Jr.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Frederick F. Meyers, Jr. is a retired
Army Colonel who writes to entertain and educate. In addition to two
combat tours in the Republic of Vietnam as well as assignments in Europe,
the Pacific, and the Middle East, he spent fifteen months on the Egypt-Israeli
border in support of the Camp David Accords. A past holder of the
Army Chair at the National Defense University, a graduate and former
teacher at the prestigious Army War College in Carlisle Barracks,
Pennsylvania, "Bud," as he is known to his close friends, resides with his
wife, Donna, and son, Matthew, on the Space Coast in Florida.