"An unholy weapon created by the Nazis has lain hidden since World War II in the most unlikely of places. Only recently discovering its existence, CIA operative Zack Matteson races across the horn of Africa before a clandestine Russian organization can find it first. Along the way, he is caught in the middle of a criminal gang war in the streets of Addis Ababa, shot at with arrows from purported cannibals, and faces a man whose identity is overshadowed by his reputation as the mysterious and feared Judas Owl."