Pinnacle Event
A Novel
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3.4 • 11 Ratings
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- $12.99
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Publisher Description
With the 2016 presidential election just weeks away, five simultaneous murders on three continents lead to an investigation revealing the recent black-market sale of five nuclear weapons. But who bought them? And what is their intended target?
Washington fears the bombs are timed to explode in major American cities before the election. They call on intelligence expert Ray Bowman to prevent the attack. With the help of a Mossad agent and a female South African intelligence officer, he follows a trail across the world to track down the missing nukes. Along the way, he discovers that the people who now control the bombs intend to do something much more devastating than expected, something that it will make nuking a few cities look like a mild attack.
Drawing on his decades of experience at the highest levels of national security, Richard A. Clarke's Pinnacle Event—the Pentagon code for a nuclear threat—is a gripping international thriller told from the rare vantage point of a true Washington insider.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Clarke (Sting of the Drone) takes on stolen nuclear warheads, that genre favorite, in this exciting action thriller. A Pinnacle Event is the Defense Department s term for a nuclear detonation, and the novel opens with a report that one has occurred in the middle of the Indian Ocean. Meanwhile, Douglas Dugout Carter, a geeky government analyst, is in his office at the Policy Evaluation Group in Washington, D.C., running a giant intelligence computer when he notices that five men around the world, all from South Africa, recently each received deposits of $500 million dollars and then died in bizarre ways. This leads Dugout to a group known as the Trustees and their plan to use five stolen nukes to change the global power structure. It s a common thriller setup, but Clarke, as always, puts an original spin on each familiar element. The author s note at the end gives the fascinating nonfiction details that fuel his story.
Customer Reviews
Ambling Tale
Rambling plot with too many unnecessary characters and sub-plots to keep it interesting. Tremendous respect for the author's political contributions but the book was difficult to finish.