Ulterior Motives

About this book

When an al-Qaida email is intercepted promising a New Years Day attack on America it leads to the capture of the groups leader. But even under fierce interrogation the terrorist clings to his jihadist beliefs and resists divulging anything of the threat. Desperate the Army resorts to a contingency paper that proposes to break a subjects resistance by inducing a religious conversion. One hitch: the top-secret attempt must be masked as an offer of clemency and must rely on a completely innocent mentor a so-called witness who is unaware of the projects true aims. They find that witness in Greg Cahill a disgraced FBI agent who has since turned to Christ and serves in a prison ministry. Lured by an offer of restoration as well as the lifting of a restraining order thats keeping him from seeing his son Greg begins an unlikely friendship with a man the entire country despises. Despite himself he begins to share his faith--yet with a combustible result unforeseen by either himself or his government handlers.