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Although retired from the US Army, Dave Riley is not from the action as he fights crafty villains and a deadly pestilence in southwestern Africa in this 6th installment of Mayer's absorbing and well-written series (Cut-Out, 1995, etc.). Now a civilian security specialist employed to protect Satellite tv Reports Network correspondent Conner Young, the ex-Special Pushes warrant official accompanies his comely charge to Angola, where she's covering a multinational mission to get rid of the civil strife that's racked the onetime Portuguese colony since it gained freedom in 1975. After overrunning rebel strongholds and creating basics camp along the Zairean boundary, the Green Berets in the UN's vanguard are ended wintry by the outbreak of an virulent plague. Quarantined with Conner and a handful of soldiers who've also been exposed to whatever's in the air, Dave apprehensively practices the unavailing tries of epidemiologists who have been flown in from the State governments to cope with the highly contagious disease they make reference to as "Z". Released from hot-zone confinement to escort the medical team on a fact-finding mission, he helps determine that man, not characteristics, has unleashed the lethal disease. With an assist from the Country wide Security Agency, North american commanders soon identify the likely culprit as Pieter Vehicle Wyks, head of the syndicate that effectively control buttons the world's diamonds trade. Aware that the avaricious mining magnate has stockpiled vaccine that can reverse the invariably fatal span of Z, the Pentagon details Dave to lead a small band of nothing-left-to-lose troopers in an airborne assault on the cartel's highly defended head office on the Namibian coastline. Though on his previous lower limbs and facing die-hard adversaries, the old soldier will have the ability to beat the odds. A ripping good biotech/armed service thriller that plausibly depicts the high costs (mental health and in any other case) of combating unseen enemies. (From Kirkus Reviews. Copyright 1996, Kirkus Affiliates, LP. All rights reserved.) This armed service action thriller occur the war-torn jungles of Africa, confirms SF veteran Riley on the most dangerous mission of his life.