1986 . . . Germany: Americans are killed at a Berlin discotheque. Libya: The US launches a retaliatory strike against Tripoli. Ukraine: A nuclear reactor explodes at a plant in Chernobyl. Iran: The US secretly sells arms to moderates in Tehrān. Nicaragua: An American pilot is shot down running guns to the Contras. Lebanon: An Arab newspaper exposes America's arms-for-hostages deals. What if all these actual events were related, part of a "no fail" plot devised by a charismatic radical leader to destroy the United States and Israel and bring about a Second Golden Age of Arabism? Against this backdrop, two Libyan soldiers, friends and brothers in arms, each must make an agonizing choice, and the US President and his advisors-including a smart young aide to the National Security Advisor who discovers that no two government agencies have exactly the same information-must race against time to solve the riddle of Saladin's Falcon. From a failed negotiation in a bar in the nation's capital to a confrontation on a mountaintop overlooking a targeted city, Bonnie Baehr takes the reader on an exciting journey through Middle Eastern strongholds and the corridors of power in Washington as government officials try to discover what Saladin's Falcon is and what threat it poses to national security.