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Synopsis:
Seeking the people responsible for a plot to kidnap the president, Secret Service
agent Scot Harvath follows clues that point to the worldтАЩs most ruthless terrorist and
enlists the aid of a hijacking survivor who knows what the terrorist looks like.




Path of the Assassin
By
Brad Thor
The second book in the Scot Harvath series
Copyright ┬й 2003 by Brad Thor


For my father, Brad Thor, Sr.,
my mother, Judy Thor,
and my uncle, Joseph P. Fawcett,
who have shared with me great wisdom,
which I draw upon every day.


Si vis pacem, para bellum.
If you wish peace, prepare for war.




1
Dressed in the traditional robes of a Muslim pilgrim, a lone figure tore back the
carpeting from beneath a window of the sumptuously appointed room and fastened
the feet of a tripod firmly into the concrete floor with a commercial-grade bolt gun.
The equipment had been smuggled into Saudi ArabiaтАЩs Dar Al Taqwa
Inter-Continental Hotel via several large suitcases and a hard-shell golf club case.
Arabs, even in Medina, loved their golf, after all, and no one had given any of the
cases a second look.
Finally assembled and secured to its launching platform, the second-generation
TOW 2 Short missile was something to behold. Though it retained the same
three-foot ten-inch profile of the ones Israel had used during the 1973 Yom Kippur
War, the effective range of the weapon had increased by almost a thousand yards,
and was now the length of forty-one football fields тАФ more than enough to deliver
todayтАЩs deadly payload.
The missileтАЩs optical sighting unit was securely positioned in the adjoining hotel
room, and its crosshairs were fixed upon its target. An infrared sensor would track
the weaponтАЩs trajectory and progress, relaying any last-minute adjustments. At such
close range though, thereтАЩd be no need for adjustments. It would be like shooting
fish in a barrel.
The digital fuse was set for ten minutes into the night prayer session of the ProphetтАЩs
Mosque, the second-holiest shrine in Islam. Friday was the most important day of
worship in the Muslim faith, and the evening prayer sessions were always the most