Bargain With the Devil: A Historical Espionage Thriller

Retired U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Peter Avakian is in Africa. Having accepted a contract to protect an abrasive South African oil executive in Nigeria, he foils a kidnapping plot and neatly extracts the man from the country.

Summoned to a meeting in Cape Town that he imagines is a thank-you and a payoff, Peter is instead invited to join a group of British and South African mercenaries intent on staging a political coup in the West African country of Benin that-it later becomes clear-...