description: In the middle of the night, on the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer is recording cargo being secretly loaded when he's brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Shortly thereafter Covert-One director Fred Klein brings word to the president that there's a Chinese cargo ship rumored to be carrying tons of chemicals to be used by a rogue nation to create a new biological weapons. The president cannot let the ship land and risk the consequences of a new stockpile of deadly chemical weapons. Klein is ordered to get the president solid proof of what the Chinese ship is ferrying. Covert-One agent Jon Smith is sent to rendezvous in Taiwan with antoher agent, who has acquired the ship's true manifest. But before Smith can get the document, the two agents are ambushed, the second agent is murdered, proof is destroyed.
language: English
title: The Altman Code
titlecomplete: The Altman Code (Covert-One, #4)
genres: Crime, Suspense, Espionage, Adventure, Spy Thriller, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Action, Fiction, Mystery
ratings_count: 6152
series: Covert-One
publisher: Books on Tape