Tough, no-nonsense World War II veteran Colonel Nick Fury, is the head of SHIELD -- the UN's crack anti-terrorist organization. When a series of planes mysteriously crash -- culminating in the disappearance of an Empyre Airlines jumbo jet -- suspicion initially points to the involvement of terrorists in Hydra. But Fury soon learns that the true villain is the insane leader of the nation Quorak -- who wants nothing less than world destruction.Now Fury must learn to work with his greatest enemies in order to halt the deadly threat...
- ISBN10 0425168166
- ISBN13 9780425168165
- Publish Date 8 August 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 31 March 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 295
- Language English