Coonts, Stephen
Liberty Stephen Coonts. - 1st ed. - New York St. Martin's Press, 2003. - 420 p. 24 cm. - Jake Grafton Series Book 10 .
On a quiet park bench in Manhattan---just miles from the ruins of the World Trade Center---spymaster Jake Janos Illin delivers a chilling secret message to Jake Grafton: A rogue Russian general has sold four nuclear warheads to a radical Islamic terrorist group, the Sword of Islam. The group intends to detonate them in America in the ultimate terror strike, the apocalypse that will trigger a holy war between Western civilization and the Muslim world. After passing Illin’s message to his superiors, Grafton is charged by the president with the task of assembling a secret team to find the warheads before America’s population centers are consumed by a nuclear holocaust.
As he hunts for the terrorists, Grafton soon finds himself up to his neck in power politics, techno-billionaires, money-grubbing traitors, anarchists, and spies. He also discovers that the terrorists don’t all come from the Middle East. They come from places close to home. They masquerade as patriots. Some may even have the president’s ear.
With the survival of Western civilization at stake, Grafton pulls out all the stops. Calling on the assistance of the indomitable Toad Tarkington, and CIA burglar Tommy Carmellini, he raids the prisons to assemble his team while the clock ticks toward Armageddon.
031228361X
2002036885
Grafton, Jake (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Terrorism--Prevention--Fiction.
Illegal arms transfers--Fiction.
Nuclear terrorism--Fiction.
Washington (D.C.)--Fiction.
Cairo (Egypt)--Fiction.
PS3553.O5796 / L53 2003
Coo 2
Liberty Stephen Coonts. - 1st ed. - New York St. Martin's Press, 2003. - 420 p. 24 cm. - Jake Grafton Series Book 10 .
On a quiet park bench in Manhattan---just miles from the ruins of the World Trade Center---spymaster Jake Janos Illin delivers a chilling secret message to Jake Grafton: A rogue Russian general has sold four nuclear warheads to a radical Islamic terrorist group, the Sword of Islam. The group intends to detonate them in America in the ultimate terror strike, the apocalypse that will trigger a holy war between Western civilization and the Muslim world. After passing Illin’s message to his superiors, Grafton is charged by the president with the task of assembling a secret team to find the warheads before America’s population centers are consumed by a nuclear holocaust.
As he hunts for the terrorists, Grafton soon finds himself up to his neck in power politics, techno-billionaires, money-grubbing traitors, anarchists, and spies. He also discovers that the terrorists don’t all come from the Middle East. They come from places close to home. They masquerade as patriots. Some may even have the president’s ear.
With the survival of Western civilization at stake, Grafton pulls out all the stops. Calling on the assistance of the indomitable Toad Tarkington, and CIA burglar Tommy Carmellini, he raids the prisons to assemble his team while the clock ticks toward Armageddon.
031228361X
2002036885
Grafton, Jake (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Terrorism--Prevention--Fiction.
Illegal arms transfers--Fiction.
Nuclear terrorism--Fiction.
Washington (D.C.)--Fiction.
Cairo (Egypt)--Fiction.
PS3553.O5796 / L53 2003
Coo 2