Two young men's lives and destiny are influenced by their cultural environment. One, an Iraqi named Haydar is influenced by his friends to join an islamic terrorist group and the story follows his adventures that follow. The second, is an american boy that has lived in the middle east for most of his 18 years as his father was an Army Brigadier General serving in different countries from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to India. As a result of his early life in these areas, he speaks fluent Pahtu, Hindu and arabic as well as others. He returns to the United Saes after graduating from high school and is accepted at West Point. the two young men are destined to have their worlds collide when Haydar is trained by Al Queda and sent to the USA to poison a river during the heavy rafting holiday in Gruene, Texas. "D-J" Jacobs who has graduated from West Point and now works for the Homeland Security Agency is assigned to interdict Haydar's terorist plot. INTERDICTION is the first in a series on terrorisim by the author.

Tim Ryan is a "weekend warrior" in a reserve unit in California. Usually he does one weekend a month for his reserve obligation but he gets a chance to do some extra flying as a flight engineer by delivering a Type C54 aircraft to the Air america Group in Viet Nam. He returns home after an adventure with his buddies in Olongopo Phillippines and a girl that has some gold from a WW2 treasure left by Ymashita. He finds he has lost his job but Air America wants him to come to work full time for them so he returns to Laos to fly as a kicker and flight engineer. He gets involved with a local uprising, captured, his aircraft destroyed my motar fire and he is left to survive in the Laotian jungle for two weeks. He manages to survive but finds that CIA accuses him of smggeling gold and he is kicked out and returns home where he and some veteran pals decide to return to Laos and get the remainder of the gold treasure. the story only gets beter after that and reminds the reder of something out of Terry and The Pirates.