Judgment at Alcatraz
A Danya Biton Novel
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Publisher Description
Fans of Jon Land's Caitlin Strong series and of James Rollin's Seichan will identify with and devour the Danya Biton series.
Capitalizing on a peaceful protest for Native American rights, a small, extremist militia swiftly seizes Alcatraz Island and holds more than 200 people hostage. Their demand: return all lands taken from Indigenous Peoples through broken treaties, or an armada of drones will render the San Francisco Bay Area a glowing ruin, uninhabitable for decades.
Former Mossad assassin Danya Biton and her friend Toby Riddle are thrown headlong into the conflict. As the authorities debate the cost of acquiescing to the demands versus the loss of civilian lives, Danya—on the run from agencies on both sides of the Atlantic—offers the only hope for rescuing the hostages and preventing an unprecedented disaster... but she may have to sacrifice herself to save the others.
PRAISE FOR DAVE EDLUND
"Edlund is right at home with his bestselling brethren, Brad Thor and Brad Taylor." – Jon Land, USA Today bestselling author of the Caitlin Strong series
"belongs on the shelf with the best military fiction out there" –James Rollins, #1 New York Times author of international thrillers
"compulsively readable" –Publishers Weekly
"action on almost every page" –Foreword Reviews
"Edlund's lean prose and whipsmart dialogue propel readers... at a breathtaking pace." –K.J. Howe, international bestselling author of Skyjack
"required reading for any thriller aficionado" –Steve Berry, New York Times and #1 international bestselling author
"plenty of heart-racing action" –San Francisco Book Review
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mossad agent Danya Biton, the protagonist of this workmanlike series launch from Edlund (the Peter Savage novels), quits the Israeli intelligence agency after she's sent to Oregon to kill an American civilian who stumbled on secret information about the Six Day War fought more than 50 years earlier. Later, at an Oregon gas station, Danya gets acquainted with Toby Riddle, a Native American woman, after rescuing her from an aggressive would-be boyfriend. Toby educates Biton about the mistreatment of Native Americans, and Danya agrees to accompany her new friend to Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay, the site of a planned peaceful protest. Unbeknownst to them, militants are planning a violent takeover of the former prison and intend to use drones to scatter radioactive material if their demands of the federal government aren't met. The subsequent attack by the militants provides an opportunity for Danya to showcase her special skills and take on the bad guys single-handed. Some readers may feel Edlund oversimplifies history in drawing parallels between Israel's policy toward the Palestinians and U.S. policy toward Native Americans, and others may be put off by the explicit gore. Danya needs to be more than a stock action heroine if she's to sustain a series.
