Countdown to Midnight
A Novel
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- 23,99 €
Descrizione dell’editore
In this sequel to Dale Brown’s New York Times bestselling Arctic Storm Rising, former U.S. Air Force officer Nick Flynn is caught up in a shadow war against allied Russia and Iran—a duo wielding a terrifying new weapon.
Nick Flynn is back in action, and he has a new employer—a shadowy intelligence outfit whose roots go back to the very beginning of the Cold War. But his first mission for them almost becomes his last. While meeting with a high-ranking Iranian dissident in the Austrian Alps, Flynn is ambushed and nearly killed… just after learning that Iran and Russia are working together on a mysterious project—one they have codenamed MIDNIGHT.
Flynn is determined to uncover MIDNIGHT’s lethal secrets. Why are Moscow and Tehran covertly retrofitting a massive oil tanker in an Iranian port? What purpose lies behind their closely guarded effort, the brainchild of Pavel Voronin—a ruthless billionaire allied with Russia’s autocratic president?
Flynn and his new team plan to put an end to the nefarious project, but they’re dogged at every step by Voronin’s hired Raven Syndicate killers—elite veterans of Russia’s special forces and intelligence services. As they track the enemy from the streets of Vienna to deep inside hostile Iran, Flynn and his crew must repeatedly risk their lives to pierce the layers of deception around this shadow war.
It’s a race against time to stop Voronin from launching his terrifying new weapon against the United States—potentially killing hundreds of millions and overturning the world’s balance of power forever. The odds are stacked high against Flynn and his team… but that’s never stopped Nick before.
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Bestseller Brown's worthy sequel to 2021's Arctic Storm Rising finds former U.S. Air Force intelligence agent Nick Flynn, now with the Quartet Directorate, a private intelligence outfit, in Austria for a clandestine rendezvous on a ski slope with Arif Khavari, "a high-ranking official in Iran's state-owned shipping company." While Khavari is talking about modifications being made to an oil tanker in an Iranian shipyard, a Russian sniper shoots him dead. Flynn flees the scene and eventually links up with fellow agent Laura Van Horn, who appeared in Arctic Storm Rising. The pair travel to Florida, where they try to figure out what the Iranians and their Russian helpers are planning with the modified tanker. Meanwhile, Pavel Voronin, the head of a syndicate that supplies military services to private companies and operations overseen by Russia's autocratic president, isn't pleased to learn that the unknown operative who met with Khavari eluded his team of assassins. The full, world-shaking scope of Voronin's secret project involving the tanker comes out only late in the novel amid twists, revelations, and a terrific final fight scene. Military action fans will be enthralled.