By the rivers of babylon - nelson demille

Lod Airport, Israel: Two Concorde jets take off for a U.

conference that will finally bring peace to the Middle East.

Covered by F-14 fighters, accompanied by security men, the planes carry warriors, pacifists, lovers, enemies, dignitaries - and a bomb planted by a terrorist mastermind.

Suddenly theyre forced to crash-land at an ancient desert site.

Here, with only a handful of weapons, the men and women of the peace mission must make a desperate stand against an army of crack Palestinian commandos - while the Israeli authorities desperately attempt a rescue mission.

In a land of blood and tears, in a windswept place called Babylon, it will be a battle of bullets and courage, and a war to the last death.