It’s the second decade of the twenty-first century, and terrorism has escalated almost beyond control. New weapons are being spawned in remote basement labs, and no one feels safe. In North America, the FBI uses cutting-edge technology to thwart domestic terrorists. The War on Terror has reached a deadly stalemate. The FBI has been dispatched to deal with a new menace. Like the Anthrax threat of 2001, a plague targeted to ethnic groups has the potential to wipe out entire populations. But the FBI itself is under political assault. There’s a good chance that agents William Griffin, Fouad Al-Husam, and Jane Rowland will be part of the last class at Quantico. As the young agents hunt a brilliant homegrown terrorist, they join forces with veteran bio-terror expert Rebecca Rose. But the plot they uncover-and the man they chase-prove far more complex than anyone expects. Quantico is a selection of: Book-of-the-Month Club, Science Fiction Book Club, Military Book Club, Mystery Guild, American Compass Book Club, and Quality Paperback Book Club. (more…)
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Friday, July 4, 2008
Echelon by Josh Conviser
In the time it takes to read this sentence, Echelon will intercept more than 70,000 phone calls, e-mails, and faxes.
Operated by the National Security Agency, Echelon is the most pervasive global eavesdropping network in history. Today, Echelon will capture three billion electronic communications.
Imagine what it will do tomorrow. (more…)
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Nemesis by Bill Napier
THE CODE BURIED IN A CENTURIES-OLD MANUSCRIPT…
From a remote Scottish mountain, Dr. Oliver Webb—one of the world’s great physicists—is whisked away by a military helicopter and routed to the Mexican border. Along with the leading men of physics and one sexy atom smasher, Webb is given an impossible task: identify the asteroid—codename Nemesis—that is on course to collide with and destroy America. They have five days to stop it. If they can’t, the President will retaliate first by ordering the U.S. military to pull the nuclear trigger… (more…)
Monday, June 23, 2008
I got 70 pages into Minutes to Burn and just didn’t find any reason to keep going. It wasn’t really the writer’s fault, just not what I was in the mood for. Having recently read a few Crichton novels and Natural Selection by Dave Freeman I just wasn’t in the mood for another eco-thriller.
But I will finish it eventually or pick up another of Gregg Andrew Hurwitz’s novels as it was well written.
So, now I’m reading:
Thirteen by Richard K. Morgan
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