StonyMan.EyeOfTheRuby by Don Pendleton

Communist hardliners seeking to become the Pacific Rim’s major economic power launch a plot to seize Taiwan. An orchestrated campaign of terror and media manipulation puts the Taiwanese government in the hot seat and officially out of U.S. favor. The crises calls for covert intervention, and Stony Man must hold hands with some old enemies tomount a counteroffensive against a ruthless foe and a bold new weapon of destruction.