Dedicated to Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya, the murdered Russian journalist and fierce critic of her President's policy in Chechnya, with Warlord Mercer-Nairne continues his genre of topical fiction, weaving timely political and social commentary into an action filled story in Chenchia, a fictional nation on Russias southern border wracked by war. Each of the countrys three regions is ruled by a warlord. Aslan Dudayev, educated in the United States, and the son of the aging Vorsky leader, was once Orla Kildare's, (DEMOS-TVs top reporter) great love.