Mark J. Handwerker

ICARUS AFLAME is the first in a series of Gordian Palmer sci-fi spy thrillers. As an agent of Project Icarus, a top secret department of the Central Intelligence Agency, Palmer is sent on a mission to stop Xian, a merciless humanoid operative of the Belial star system, before the alien succeeds in helping an infamous Quuraki dictator develop the first hypersonic aerospace bomber.