The Rats of Beirut

Mick Neesom is an Australian with a background in clandestine criminal and military operations. When his partner is abducted and murdered on the outskirts of Brisbane he traces her killers to Lebanon and Iraq. With assistance from Israel’s Mossad and the US Army he tracks his quarry (known as LIBRA) to their lair in the Turkish Border Mountains of Kurdistan. It is here that he discovers a cache of Saddam Hussein’s hidden WMDs ready for launching against Israel and bordering Arab nations. LIBRA is headed by The Ferret, an unscrupulous little rat faced man, who cares little about Israel or its Arab neighbours in his quest for domination of Middle East wealth. Mick and his friend Moukhtar join in a vendetta against The Ferret and LIBRA and formulate a plan to rid the area of insurgents involved in suicide bombings and IEDs.