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The Assassins: A Novel With this suspenseful, action-packed finale, Oliver North concludes the trilogy that has included his best-selling novels Mission Compromised and The Jericho Sanction. In 2005, the fourth anniversary of the September 11th attacks on America is met with the news that Jihadists have attacked multiple targets in Saudi Arabia, destroying oil pumping equipment, crippling pipelines, and assassinating most of the royal family. In the U.S. gas prices soar to over $6 a gallon along with hyper-inflation across the world financial markets. “Non-business travel” in the U.S. is limited to no more than 500 miles per week....

BLUEMONT, Va. — Back when he was at the red-hot, klieg-lighted center of the worst political scandal in a generation, Lt. Col. Oliver L. North was accused more than once of mixing a little fiction in with his facts. So perhaps there's a little justice for Mr. North, now a conservative radio talk-show host and the capital's newest celebrity novelist, in writing a Washington thriller that mixes a few uncomfortable facts in with his fiction. "I'm not trying to settle any scores," insisted Mr. North, who at 58 is only a little grayer and a little thicker than when he...