At the dawn of the 21st century, a new missile crisis threatens America in De Bonos Reap the Whirlwind!

China continues to deploy short range and intermediate range missiles across one of the worlds busiest shipping lanes-the volatile Taiwan Strait.

Reap the Whirlwind follows the story of Jonas Benjamin, a CIA analyst who discovers some of the missiles deployed against Taiwan are dummies. Suddenly, American intelligence no longer can account for all of Chinas ballistic missiles.

Carrier Task Force 70, built around the Kitty Hawk Battlegroup, maintains the peace and freedom of navigation in the South China Sea. The Beijing warlords devise a scheme to knock the Kitty Hawk and American might out of action.

Jonas follows a rumor that China might be militarizing the Panama Canal Zone. When Jonas is overdue, Special Forces Major Jim Harper mounts a one-man rescue operation.

Just when things seem to be settling down, China makes its move and the world plunges towards a nuclear confrontation.

Dont miss this heart pounding, page turning thriller from a master in contemporary political and military fiction.

Reap the Whirlwind: ISBN: 0957985886 / $21.95 / 496 Pages / published by Metropolis Ink.

Mr. De Bono has been favorably compared with Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn and Stephen Hunter. His trademark is careful research and a blurring of the line between fact and fiction.

His novels are available at all major on-line books stores such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Booksamillion, or they can be ordered through your bookseller.

The books are distributed through Ingram and Baker & Taylor.