Allah's Scorpion
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
A heart-pounding thriller pitting CIA operative Kirk McGarvey against the world's most notorious terrorist in a race against time.
Under the cover of a moonless night, al-Quaida operatives infiltrate the infamous Camp Delta prison on the American base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a failed attempt to free five former Iranian Navy submarine crewmen. Their freedom was to be the first step in unleashing a deadly act of terrorism codenamed Allah's Scorpion.
The CIA and Kirk McGarvey are called in, but first McGarvey must stop the destruction of the Panama Canal by a Venezuelan oil tanker rigged to explode in one of the locks. What seems to be an unrelated attack turns up the same cryptic code name.
The ultimate strike may be imminent - a grand finale to what began on 9/11. A pair of Russian nuclear warhead missiles have turned up on the radar, and they are in transit by sea to an undisclosed launch site in the Atlantic Ocean. McGarvey is the only man capable of stopping this devastating attack on America in Allah's Scorpion, an explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author David Hagberg.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the vivid start of Hagberg's latest thriller to feature former CIA director Kirk McGarvey, al-Qaeda terrorists attack Camp Echo the part of the U.S. base at Guant namo where detainees deemed to be harmless are held while their release is arranged and help some of these prisoners escape. It appears that Osama bin Laden is putting together a crew of naval experts to pull off an attack on a seaport on America's West Coast that will dwarf even the horrors of 9/11. As McGarvey, who comes out of retirement, and a tough, sexy Cuban-born CIA agent, Gloria Ibenez, prepare to fight off what al-Qaeda has code-named Allah's Scorpion, Hagberg (Soldier of God) once again displays his wide and deep inside knowledge of intelligence and military tradecraft including details of how Osama and his men hide from American spy satellites. Too many tongue-twisting names of weapons and equipment might slow down the action for some readers, but the full thrust of the narrative soon takes on a life of its own.
