In Bear's War, the fifth book in the nine-book "Asps" series, and 14th Jim Scott Book, the team spends a good portion of the book tracking down a half-German, half-Egyptian terrorist. During that effort, they manage to damage the plans he has to make two major attacks on England, and one on the United States...only to have the attacks re-planned. On two occasions, they run into the Iranians offering substantial help to the al-Qaida terrorist they are trying to capture. Tragedy continues to stalk the combined team of Asps and former Janitors, but, as always, they fight the War on Terror, in spite of their losses...and add new and exciting characters.

It is obvious to anyone paying attention that a much-weakened al-Qaida continues to find traction in many ways. Not the least of those efforts are in recruiting new members in several locations around the globe. The trick of the game is to thwart those efforts as fast as the terror organization can come up with them. This book, as with most of the "Asps" series, deals with those efforts.