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As the world watched in shock and disbelief, the events of September 11, 2001 devastated America with a wakeup call to terrorism. William “Dutch” VandeDorff, a retired United States Marine and 27-year veteran of covert operations, who lost his daughter and only child in the tragedy, decides he will treat his anguish by getting revenge for his beloved ‘Kate’ and all the innocent victims of the horrendous attacks. Since he has a personal history with the perpetrator, Dutch plans to track down Osama bin Laden and find his own Personal Justice.

In the action-packed story of that retribution, Dutch is joined in his pursuit by his best friend and long time partner in covert operations, Muhammad Saif, a high-level CIA Middle East operative and three of New York’s finest—a firefighter, an emergency medical technician and a policeman. The story takes the five men from Ground Zero to Canada, to military training in France, to Pakistan where they outwit al Qaeda undercover operatives and finally through the historic Khyber Pass into Afghanistan to get their man.

A powerful tale filled with unforgettable characters, authentic locations and weaponry, excitement and humor, Lee keeps the reader on the edge of their seat and in the middle of heart-stopping action.

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Personal Justice

Prologue
When Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in August 1990, Osama bin Laden was under virtual house arrest in Saudi Arabia for his extremist views. He wanted to mobilize his mujahedeen fighters in Afghanistan to help repel a threatened Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia. The leaders of Saudi Arabia rebuffed his efforts and to his disgust turned to the Americans for help.

Bin Laden later wrote in his infamous Fataawa (religious proclamation) that he was outraged that American and other Western, non-Muslim forces now occupied the lands of Islam in its holiest of places on the Arabian Peninsula. He stated that he feared the infidels would never leave, that they would plunder Islam’s riches, dictate to its rulers, humiliate its people, and terrorize its neighbors. The infidels, he claimed, would turn their bases on the peninsula into a spearhead for conquering neighboring Muslim countries.

Deciding Saddam Hussein was the lesser of two evils, bin Laden planned to use Hussein to wage Jihad (Holy War) against the Western invaders and their puppets in Saudi Arabia who had invited them. To achieve his goals, bin Laden arranged a secret meeting with Saddam Hussein through his Afghan contacts.

On February 23, 1991, hours before the start of the ground war of Operation Desert Storm, Osama bin Laden was able to slip out of Saudi Arabia undetected and travel to Iraq for the secret meeting.