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Book Description:
A smoothly believable race-against-time thriller with frightening plausibility. Unidentified military terrorists kidnap welder Jack Hummel from his Maryland home and direct him to cut through a block of titanium to reach a launch key in the South Mountain MX missile site.Members who requested this book also requested:
The president decides to send in the crack Delta assault team, but the man best suited to command them is Col. Dick Puller, who was discredited and disgraced in Iran in 1979. Puller, in turn, must work with the only man who knows the missile silo, its designer, Prof. Peter Thiokol. The leader of "Aggressor-One" is discovered to be Russian Military Intelligence chief Arkady Pashin: he is charismatic, reactionary and messianically determined to launch the single MX that will trigger a massive Soviet reply.
Part of the fast-moving plot revolves around two abandoned coalmine tunnels, a stupid Russian spy and Thiokol's estranged wife, who unwittingly gave the Russians the plans for South Mountain. The 7 a.m.-to-midnight action flashes cinematically on Delta Force, the crack Russian Spetsnaz troops and various civilians.
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Chuck P. from PACKWOOD, WA wrote on 12/1/2007...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Non stop action, a real page turner. An elite military force takes over America's newest nuclear missile silo and intends to start WW III. I thoughly enjoyed the story.
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Hunter is one of the best thriller writers in the business. Entertaining nuclear terrorism story.
Terry A. from WASH BORO, PA wrote on 2/12/2007...A very tense, high-action read!
Joel G. from LOS ANGELES, CA wrote on 1/21/2007...A big fat nailbiting doomsday scenario thrill ride.
Cheryl (Toni) J. (Publishers Weekly
Hunter ( The Spanish Gambit ) has written a smoothly believable race-against-time thriller with frightening plausibility. Unidentified military terrorists kidnap welder Jack Hummel from his Maryland home and direct him to cut through a block of titanium to reach a launch key in the South Mountain MX missile site. The president decides to send in the crack Delta assault team, but the man best suited to command them is Col. Dick Puller, who was discredited and disgraced in Iran in 1979. Puller, in turn, must work with the only man who knows the missile silo, its designer, Prof. Peter Thiokol. The leader of ``Aggressor-One'' is discovered to be Russian Military Intelligence chief Arkady Pashin: he is charismatic, reactionary and messianically determined to launch the single MX that will trigger a massive Soviet reply. Part of the fast-moving plot revolves around two abandoned coalmine tunnels, a stupid Russian spy and Thiokol's estranged wife, who unwittingly gave the Russians the plans for South Mountain.
The countdown begins when welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban Maryland home and whisked to the South Mountain MX missile site-a top-secret nuclear complex now taken over by paramilitary terrorists.
All that stands between the Uzi-armed commandos and the laucch button is a half-ton titanium block. They want Jack Hummel to cut through it-so they can unleash a devastatingly brilliant plot that threatens global disaster.
Now a Delta Force veteran and a think-tank defense wizard must get inside South Mountain-by defeating their own super-security systems and a darkly ingenious enemy leader...
...while Jack Hummel's torch burns closer and closer to the launch key...while the clock ticks closer to midnight-and Armageddon.
Victoria M. from LATROBE, PA wrote on 6/21/2006...The countdown begins when welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban Maryland home and whisked him to a missile site where uzi-armed terrorists want him to cut through a titanium block.
Not since FAIL-SAFE has anyone written a nuclear thriller as good as THE DAY BEFORE MIDNIGHT ..... a smoothly believable race against time frightenly plausibility.
Julie M. from MOGADORE, OH wrote on 3/17/2006...A nuclear thriller from the same author as Point of Impact, The Spanish Gambit, The Second Saladin and The Master Sniper.
Unidentified military terrorists kidnap welder Jack Hummel from his Maryland home and direct him to cut through a block of titanium to reach a launch key in the South Mountain MX missile site. The president decides to send in the crack Delta assault team, but the man best suited to command them is Col. Dick Puller, who was discredited and disgraced in Iran in 1979. Puller, in turn, must work with the only man who knows the missile silo, its designer, Prof. Peter Thiokol. The leader of "Aggressor-One" is discovered to be Russian Military Intelligence chief Arkady Pashin: he is charismatic, reactionary and messianically determined to launch the single MX that will trigger a massive Soviet reply. Part of the fast-moving plot revolves around two abandoned coalmine tunnels, a stupid Russian spy and Thiokol's estranged wife, who unwittingly gave the Russians the plans for South Mountain