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    • Pub. Date: February 2009
    • 304pp
    • Sales Rank: 207,620
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      • Pub. Date: February 2009
      • Publisher: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
      • Format: Hardcover, 304pp
      • Sales Rank: 207,620

      Synopsis

      This searing new novel from bestselling author Whitley Strieber explores the unthinkable but very real possibility: Could terrorists get nuclear weapons?

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      In this overheated thriller about nuclear terrorism from bestseller Strieber (2012: The War for Souls), Jim Deutsch, a CIA contract employee whose expertise is counterproliferation, has the world's fate in his hands as he races to foil the Islamic master-terrorist known as the Madhi. When Deutsch learns that some plutonium has been smuggled over the U.S. border from Mexico, he begins to suspect that America's elaborate homeland security apparatus has been compromised. His valiant efforts, alas, aren't enough to prevent the destruction of Las Vegas. As U.S. president William Fitzgerald ponders whether to launch devastating counterattacks aimed at much of the Muslim world, the tension rises, but the impact is undercut by some uneven prose ("She looked back at him as if from another dimension, her gaze resplendent with the unquenchable hope of youth, her mother's proud lips, determined, supremely confident that her dad was the great man she believed him to be"). (Feb.)

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      Biography

      WHITLEY STRIEBER is the bestselling author of more than twenty-five books, including the legendary Warday, Nature's End, and The Coming Global Superstorm, the basis of the movie The Day After Tomorrow. His most recent books, The Grays and 2012: The War for Souls, are both being made into films. His website, Unknown Country, is the largest of its kind in the world, exploring the edge of science and reality.

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      It was very fastby loves_to_readEV

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      October 25, 2009: It's hard to me to say... I really liked most of the book (i will not give away much) but there were things I thought were really stupid. I felt toward the end a little impatient.... but overall it held my attention.

      Did not put it down until I finished the last page. An entertaining read!by JAlfred

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      May 23, 2009: Possible scenario but almost a stretch. Good entertainment.


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