Dead Air - Softcover

Veteran TV correspondent Peter Dees--hard-living, wisecracking, hungry for a scoop--seizes upon a story that could rock the world. Deep behind volatile Middle Eastern borders, a madman is stockpiling a lethal arsenal of chemical weapons. And someone on the outside is helping him. But as Dees tears back the layers of intrigue, his sources, many of them friends, begin to die--shot in the head, a bullet to the left eye.

From Port-au-Prince and Cairo to the scorched deserts of Saudi Arabia and Iraq, Dees finds the conspiracy much deeper than he ever imagined. For it seems that everyone--even the U.S. government--is hiding deep, damning secrets. His search for answers propels him into the very heart of a death-charred war zone. And the closer Dees gets to the truth, the likelier it becomes that he will never live to report it. . . .

Charles Jaco gained worldwide fame with his reports of SCUD attacks on Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. During a career with NBC, CNN, and CBS, Jaco has covered nine wars, a half-dozen riots, and countless earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes. He has also covered Congress, the White House, the Pentagon, and various intelligence agencies. He was declared an Enemy of the State by Manuel Noriega, and persona non grata by regimes in Iraq and the Sudan. He has won two Edward R. Murrow awards, six National Headliner awards, and two dozen other national and international journalism awards; two programs on which he worked have received the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award. He has written for dozens of publications, including Rolling Stone, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, and the Miami Herald. He currently hosts his own ra