The Pirates of Aden
Dr. Paul Alban has tried hard to forget. He’s managed to carve out a quiet and relatively anonymous existencewith his girlfriend Ellen while working as a physician in Somalia. But when aSomali pirate is injured during the hijacking of a cargo ship and brought to hisclinic for treatment in the coastal town of Bosasso, the demons of his pastthreaten to destroy the future he’s trying to protect.
Paul is not only a physician for a humanitarian agency; he’s also aclandestine operative for the United States government. His most recent task was to provide a gang ofSomali pirates with the shipping manifest of a Ukrainian cargo ship. According to the manifest, the ship wasloaded with munitions. Strangely, it didn’t list the thirteen man portablenuclear weapons in container R-EX 030862. Even stranger, Langley denies having sent Paul the manifest in the firstplace.
But when a group of terrorists, led by Kadar Hadad, the man Paul nearlykilled a decade earlier, steal the weapons and kidnap his girlfriend, itbecomes clear to Paul that he’s been set up. Now, considered a traitor in the United States, Paul must decide whetherto go into hiding, or settle a decade old score and stop an unthinkable attackon U.S. soil.
The Story Behind This Book
Delays at airports can lead to books being written. I picked up a National Geographic when I was delayed and it led to the plot for The Pirates of Aden.