Anton Beresch

Anton Beresch is the leader of the the team that James Nathanson assembles to take over Ontario Airport. Beresch maintains the pretense that the hostage situation is in protest of an anti-terrorism treaty that Presidents Charles Logan and Yuri Subarov are about to sign, and he executes several hostages to show he is serious. In actuality, the entire hostage situation is a diversion to allow Ivan Erwich to acquire 20 canisters of Sentox nerve gas from a nearby hanger. He is under orders from Nathanson to kill all the hostages 90 minutes after taking the airport. Before Beresch can carry out this this order, however, an assault team led by Curtis Manning storms the terminal. Beresch commits suicide to avoid capture, but the true objective has been accomplished, as Erwich succeeds in obtaining the Sentox.