Selected by The Sunday Times as one of the four top thrillers of the year JERICHO'S WAR is the new paperback from 'the best thriller writer in the world' (Daily Telegraph) In a moment of nerve-shredding suspense that will affect many thousands of lives a handful of men & women converge on a barren stretch of Yemeni desert The mission is to take down a high-value player in the war against Al-Qaeda It is the brainchild of an old fat fool called Jericho In his striped cricket blazer never without a G&T he is a sweating figure of fun among the ex-pats across the border in Muscat Yet perhaps he is not quite as old or foolish or even fat as he appears Nor as harmless Welcome to Jericho's War its weaponry is state-of-the-art its brutality as timeless as the desert