The Consultant
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Terrorism hits Main Street America
When a rogue CIA consultant goes AWOL from his Middle Eastern post in response to his brother's plea for help, he arrives just in time to witness his brother's murder. For years, Jonathan Hunter and his brother Kevin Mallory had not spoken—until Kevin's final words, "… Khalifah … Not Them … Maya."
Pursuing his brother's killer, Hunter stumbles into a nest of horrifying terrorist activity by Middle Eastern refugees, which sparks a backlash across America. In the shadows, Hunter's mentor, the omnipotent Oscar LaRue, is playing a dangerous game with Russian Intelligence. Neither Hunter nor LaRue realizes that a new threat—the Iranian threat—has entered the game. Stakes rise as two shadowy players are one step ahead of Hunter and LaRue—Khalifah, a terrorist mastermind, and Caine, a nomadic assassin who dances with the highest bidder.
As attacks escalate and the country drifts toward another Middle East conflict, innocent refugees become trapped between the terrorists and the terrorized. Prejudice, hate, and fear vent everywhere. Is this who we've become? Before the country explodes, Hunter must find Khalifah, learn the next terror target, and pray he's in time to stop further annihilation.
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After 15 years without contact, CIA consultant Jon Hunter, the hero of this exciting series launch from O'Connor (New Sins for Old Scores), receives a letter from his older brother, Kevin, asking him to come home to Winchester, Va. On arrival in Winchester, Jon has to dodge a few bullets before finding his estranged brother lying on the east bank of the Shenadoah River, mortally wounded. Before Kevin dies, he slips Jon a piece of paper with a partial address, which leads Jon to a house in Manassas. When Jon spots two men one white, the other a "dark-skinned young man" leaving the house, he follows their car to a nearby mall, where the latter sets off a bomb, which kills and injures many people. In his effort to find his brother's killers and thwart a terrorist plot led by someone named Khalifah, Jon is helped and sometimes hindered by local police, the FBI, Joint Terrorism Task Force members, and his CIA mentor, Oscar LaRue. Thriller fans who value fast-paced action over character development will be satisfied.
