The Op-Center team heads for Spain, where ethnic conflicts threaten to use into a conflagration. As the novel’s cleverness chief Bob Herbert places it, this clash ‘will make the Spanish Civil War appear to be a brawl.’ The cleverness team’s attempts to defuse the problems are foiled when an Op-Center representative is normally assassinated in Madrid on her way to a high-level diplomatic get together. Someone very effective wants another Spanish War – no matter what the cost. Today the team must delicately navigate the treacherous shoals of a well planned insurrection by a popular Spanish general and his soldiers. As normal, Clancy delivers a memorable cast of heroes, and he welcomes us in to the byways of little-traveled place within this action-packed intrigue.