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In this, Sean Drummond's fourth outing, the wisecracking, bull-in-a-china-shop J.A.G. lawyer gets loaned out to a white-shoe law firm whose #1 client, a telecom giant, may be vacuuming up intelligence for a foreign power. The first Sean Drummond novel, "Secret Sanction (Warner, 6/01), has more than 460,000 combined copies in print and was a "Washington Post and "USA TODAY best-seller. "Mortal Allies was published in 4/02 and has more than 213,000 combined copies in print.- This is the fourth title in Brian Haig's series featuring JAG attorney Sean Drummond. The third, "The Kingmaker, was published in hardcover in 1/03 and will be released in mass market in 8/03.- Brian Haig was recently hired as the military expert for Fox News.- Saturn Films, actor Nicolas Cage's production company, has, in affiliation with Intermedia and Universal, optioned the Sean Drummond character for a series of films.