Critical Mass
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
In a deadly game of revenge, Kirk McGarvey becomes the target of a grieving man determined to make him pay the ultimate price.
Kirk McGarvey--one-time CIA assassin--dreams of a peaceful life and marital bliss. But one man will change all that. In 1945, Isawa Nakaruma lost his mother and father at Hiroshima, his wife and child at Nagasaki, and has been planning for years to wreak his revenge--and he holds Kirk McGarvey personally responsible.
Nakaruma's plan begins with the murder of McGarvey's girlfriend and the kidnapping and torture of his ex-wife and daughter. But he won't stop there, not until McGarvey himself is six feet under and nuclear bombs are detonated over Los Angeles and San Francisco.
In this gripping thriller from New York Times bestselling author David Hagberg, Kirk McGarvey must race against time to stop a vengeful plot that threatens millions of lives. Critical Mass is a heart-pounding tale of espionage, suspense, and the lengths one man will go to exact his revenge.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The author of Crossfire sets his fast-paced new thriller in motion with an exciting scenario: an embittered Hiroshima survivor's attempt to explode nuclear devices in San Francisco and Los Angeles on the anniversaries of the two atomic bomb attacks that ended WW II. In Paris, former CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey sees his lover's plane shot down by a Stinger missile fired by a team of East German assassins in the employ of madman Isowa Makkamura. Seeking revenge, McGarvey begins to pick up Makkamura's trail after a brutal killing in Tokyo, but the East Germans kidnap his ex-wife and daughter to throw him off the track. The bloody effort to rescue the two women obscures the main plot line for a while, but McGarvey eventually confronts Makkamura in Tokyo, then joins him on a deadly flight across the Pacific before the book's final crisis, which is resolved only in the final sentence. McGarvey may be a little too superhuman--and the villains too evil by half--to be believed, but tension never lags in this certified page-turner. ( June )
