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al-Qaeda Strikes Again
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ISBN:
0-7414-4910-2
©2008
Price:
$17.95
Book Size:
5.5'' x 8.5''
, 340 pages
Category/Subject:
FICTION / Thrillers
al-Qaeda is going to rain havoc on America. What are they going to do? And to what targets and when? Can anyone unravel this mystery in time?
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Abstract:
The inexplicable suicide of a female passenger at JFK International Airport and a secret list discovered by authorities in Pakistan set the stage for a diabolical and deadly al-Qaeda plot involving simultaneous and catastrophic acts of terrorism across the United States. In a race against time, the only question is whether Terrorism Task Force Leader, Wayne Kirby, and his Rambo-like girlfriend, Rennie Jordon, will live long enough to unravel the details, find the terrorists and put a stop to their deadly jihad.
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Customer Reviews
Countdown to Terror
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12/05/2008
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Reviewer:
Jaycee
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al-Qaeda Strikes Again is a thriller that opens with a code red security alert at JFK International Airport. A woman is chased down a concourse and disappears into a restroom. In the mountains of Pakistan, a CIA agent finds a list of 20 U.S. cities in the rubble of a destroyed al-Qaeda training camp. The National Security Agency (NSA) passes the list to its top-secret super computer center, MPSIS, in Dallas, Texas, where analysts begin a feverish race to interpret what the list means. FBI and NSA agents leap into action. Meanwhile, terrorist cells across the country wait for the word "go."
Author Bill Binkley has written a hugely ambitious first thriller, a 340-page novel featuring not only the main al-Qaeda terrorist plot, but also murder, espionage, sexual liaisons, terrorists' personal vendettas, terminal illness, political issues involving torture, and an assassination plot against the U.S. President. Despite all this turmoil, two young heroes find the time to fall in love. That the author manages all these plot threads across several different locations is a feat in itself. Binkley has an ear for dialogue and no short-comings in the imagination department. This is action movie material. Ingenious booby traps! Mysterious disappearances! Political intrigue and sexual shenanigans! No doubt we haven't seen the last of Terrorism Task Force leader/FBI agent Wayne Kelly and MPSIS analyst/FBI special agent Rennie Jordon.
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Binkley Strikes Back
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01/02/2009
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Reviewer:
R. E. Conary
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Will terrorists strike the U.S. again? Experts say yes. Will we stop them? Maybe.
Bill Binkley's debut thriller, "al-Queda Strikes Again," challenges America's top analysts and FBI agents to solve that problem. Failure is not an option.
"al-Qaeda Strikes Again" reminds me a lot of Frederick Forsyth's first novel, "The Day of the Jackal" (one of my all-time favorites). Forsyth's police Inspector Claude Lebel and the "old boys' network" of foreign intelligence and police contacts must stop the assassination of French president, Charles de Gaulle, without knowing who, when, where or how. In Binkley's book, it's the Jackal times twenty.
Twenty U.S. cities are targeted for catastrophe that will make 9/11 pale in comparison and all U.S. intelligence has is the list of cities. It will take everything that crack analyst Rennie Jordon and Special Agent Wayne Kelly and their teams can figure out and do to stop the devastation from happening.
The book has flaws, but these never stop "al-Qaeda Stikes Again" from beating a rhythmic tattoo (like the theme from "Jaws") toward an exciting, page-flipping, it-could-happen climax.
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