"The Final Shah Mat," features Gene Bond who, stuck with an irritating out of character surname and a feminine sounding first name, becomes the reluctant hero in a story that is a confusion of fact and fiction. A group of former Cheka terrorists seek to avenge the demise of the Soviet Union by pressurising California to leave the United States of America thereby encouraging the break up of the USA. Funded by a Russian Oligarch, the plot is orchestrated by a South Korean "chaos entrepreneur" who plans his campaign like a chess game. But only he knows when and what the final move is. A massacre...