The Black Dagger

A devastatingly intense thriller written by David J Rollison, his charmingly deadly hero Mike Kelly Department of Homeland Security counterterrorism operative foils al Qaeda attempts to assassinate the President of the United States and G8 World Leaders. The actions begins with a Saudi assassin in the Bahamas seeking to smuggle deadly Sarin gas to be used at the G8 Summit on St. Simons Island, Georgia. The elite unit of joint counterterrorism operatives of the DHS, FBI and CIA team up to stop the assassin and the al Qaeda mastermind, Sheik Abdullah bin Wadi. After years without a terrorist attack on American soil, the mastermind behind al Qaeda has picked the G8 Summit held on an island off the Georgia coast to pull off he perfect attack. Mike Kelly and his team of warriors find themselves frustrated by the ingenuity of al Qaeda to select another location for the attack, an Atlanta suburban shopping center and a Presidential trip to Turner Field with the G8 World Leaders to watch the Atlanta Braves and The Arizona Diamond Backs in a MLB championship play off game. Meanwhile, the al Qaeda mastermind and his brother terrorist are still at large, and Kelly has been ordered by the president to find and bring them to justice. Following them to the UK, with help from the British MI6 they will do whatever is necessary to arrest or kill them. Mike Kelly continues on in this adrenaline charged thriller to the remote mountains of Waziristan between Pakistan and Afghanistan where Sheik Abdullah holds up in a hideaway fortress. An outraged president wants him to pay for his crimes against America. But the president isn’t the only one wanting the Sheik, the Saudi King wants his head on a platter for scheming to kill the Royal Family and making himself the new Caliph of the Muslim world. Mike Kelly will do whatever it takes to bring the last al Qaeda mastermind to justice and to meet in hell with Osama ben Laden

David Rollison is retired. He and his wife, Sara have operated a bed and breakfast and fine dining restaurant for many years. He has a daughter, Aimee and son, Walt and six grandchildren. David is a graduate of Georgetown University, Washington, DC, MLS. He is a licensed 100T Master, USCG Captain. He is lives on St. Simons Island, Georgia. He is an avid sailor. His first novel, "The Black Dagger," hasn't won any awards yet. His second novel, Indigo Island is soon to be published in December, 2011.