When a young child is snatched by Middle Eastern terrorists, a veteran counterintelligence operative sets out to track them down, only to be horribly scarred in a fiery confrontation with the kidnappers. At first he withdraws from life and the world, but when the skin grafts he receives from the slain terrorists begin to cause strange visions, he embarks on a quest to exact retribution and regain his humanity.

An engrossing, adventure-filled story of one man's determined struggle to combat the forces of fear and 'chaos in the world -- and in his own heart -- The Skins of Dead Men is a powerful, prophetic new work of suspense by a gifted storyteller.