Assured Response
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- £6.99
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Publisher Description
From the New York Times Best-Selling Author of DEFCON One . . .
When traditional military tactics are no longer enough, new weapons must be found. Scott Dalton and Jackie Sullivan are those weapons—operatives so secret that they will be disavowed if ever caught.
Equipped with cutting-edge technology and with extensive resources, only they can prevent a nuclear catastrophe that could destroy the United States.
They do not lack for targets in their efforts to prevent a worldwide conflagration: Saeed Shayhidi, a billionaire Iranian mastermind of terror; Khaliq Farkas, as barbaric and elusive as bin Laden; and Zheng-Yen Tsung, a powerful Chinese official looking to tip the scales of world power at any expense.
For Dalton and Sullivan, the challenges have never been greater, the threat never more intense. The United State is under attack on multiple fronts and our enemies must know that any such attack will be met only one way . . . with an assured response.
“Thanks be to the book-writing gods; we have a writer who does what writers are supposed to do—tell a story.”—The Wichita Eagle
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Super top-secret spy duo Scott Dalton and Jackie Sullivan return to battle Islamic terrorists in bestseller Weber's (Primary Target) latest techno-thriller. Charged with capturing the key lieutenant and his suitcase-sized nuclear weapons of a terrorist organization that's begun a deadly assault on the U.S., the pair spends much of the novel flying around in an assortment of meticulously described aircraft as attacks on American symbolic and strategic targets mount. President Cord Macklin orders a series of counterattacks, at first setting his sights on Saeed Shayhidi, the multibillionaire shipping magnate cum terrorist arch-villain. When that doesn't halt the strikes on America, Macklin aggressively broadens his war on terrorism, promising, "No peace talks, no compromises, no settlements, no bullshit period!" This post-9/11 rage might prove cathartic for some readers, but it doesn't do much for Weber's plot. The "assured" quality of attack and response drains the book of its suspense, and the violence level rises predictably and inexorably. The one truly surprising element in the novel is an international border dispute that follows a deeply unlikely chain of events. Dalton and Sullivan continue to speak like robots (She: "We are going to Hawaii as soon as possible, right?" He: "No argument from me, but responsibility is the nature of our business"), and they also seem to watch much of the book's action on Fox News. The plot threads that are left hanging to be picked up in the next installment, presumably give the book a frustratingly half-finished feel.
