A thrilling novel of financial and political suspense and intrigue, The

HAWALADAR recounts one man's ill-conceived attempt to meld the highly

regulated culture of modern commercial banking with that of the parallel,

underground netherworld of Hawala, a world-wide network of shadowy

money-movers whose services are ideally suited to the needs of such

nefarious clientele as organized crime, drug cartels, rogue governments and

modern-day terrorist organizations.

Tariq Nasir, is a brilliant, dynamic Pakistani-American who is amassing

significant wealth via a fast-growing international business empire,

structured to commingle modern business systems and technology with the

highly secretive commercial practices of the old world and Hawala. The

attempted assimilation of controlling interest in a highly regulated U.S.

financial institution, however, ushers in the gradual unraveling of a family

business plan conceived in Pakistan years prior to Mr. Nasir's birth.

Logan Hart, is a man who is no stranger to financial or international intrigue.

He is hired as number two executive at the Nasir-controlled Global United

Bank of Chicago to assist in morphing the once local community bank into

the kind of international banking organization conceived by the Nasir plan.

The recently widowed, career banker and former special military operator

begins to question the advisability of having accepted his new position

when a series of strange events start happening shortly after his arrival.

Doubt begins with the death of a much-beloved old regulator from the

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, who is murdered while examining

the bank.

Partnered with Cassandra Price, the federal official assigned by the OCC to

investigate the circumstances of the untimely death of her associate, Hart

finds himself unexpectedly attracted to the senior regulator, as the two help

uncover an insidious plot by an Islamic fundamentalist terror group, who are

planning a coordinated attack on several American cities with a biological

weapon of mass destruction. The pair find themselves at the forward edge

of the battle area in the War on Terror as they work with the FBI and

agencies of the Department of Homeland Security in a race against time to

avert a disaster of epic proportions.