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The world's richest man is also its most dangerous terrorist in a harrowing tale by the author of The Enemy Within. When a member of the Saudi royal family decides that his country should become a world nuclear power, U.S. Army Colonel Peter Thorn and FBI Special Agent Helen Gray do everything in their power to keep it from happening.
Author Notes
Larry Bond is a writer and game designer. He graduated from St. Thomas College in 1973 with a degree in quantitative methods.
Bond worked as a computer programmer before entering The U.S. Navy Officers Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island. He graduated in 1976 and served in the Navy for six years. Bond spent two years with the Navy Reserve Intelligence Program and then worked as a naval analyst for consulting firms in Washington, D.C.
Bond also designs games. His Harpoon gaming system was published in 1980 and has won the H.G. Wells Award as the best miniature game of the year in 1981, 1987, and 1997. A computer version of the game was created in 1990 and won the Wargame of the Year award from Computer Gaming World.
Bond began his writing career by collaborating with Tom Clancy on the bestseller Red Storm Rising. His own novels include Red Phoenix, The Enemy Within, and Day of Wrath.
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Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
A by-the-numbers affair about a terrorist nuclear attack on the U.S., Bond's lackluster latest begins when FBI agent Helen Gray and U.S. Army colonel Peter Thorn arrive in Russia to investigate the mysterious crash of a Russian cargo plane that happened to be carrying a team of American arms inspectors. The local authorities try to make the crash look like an accident, but their thinly veiled attempts at deception fail to convince Gray and Thorn, who quickly find evidence of a hidden shipment of nuclear missiles and embark on a hunt that takes the duo across Europe, where they are betrayed by a high-level FBI mole, and eventually leads them hometo Washington, D.C., where a corrupt Arab prince is masterminding plans for a lethal warhead launch. An engaging, adventurous romantic couple, Thorn and Gray have a flair for high-risk solutions that pushes the pace in the second half of the book. But Bond spends far too much time in the first half following the missiles on their labyrinthine journey, and there's nothing terribly innovative or exciting in that part of the narrative or any of the subsequent plot twists. Readers who enjoyed the high-stakes hijinks of Gray and Thorn in The Enemy Within may find their curiosity piqued, but there's little in this tale to separate Bond's fifth novel from the flotsam and jetsam of the genre. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
Former naval military analyst and intelligence officer Bond, ex-collaborator with Tom Clancy (on Red Storm Rising) and now a spectacularly large-selling, spankingly reviewed technothriller author himself (The Enemy Within, 1996, etc.), slaps scenes into his computer like fresh magazine clips. This time out, he pits the bold archvillain Prince Ibrahim al Saud, a member of the Saudi royal family and perhaps the world's richest man, certainly its most dangerous, against US Army Colonel Peter Thorn and FBI Special Agent Helen Gray, who must stop the bankrolling billionaire's delivery of Russian devices onto American soil. But on a countdown to apocalypse, they find themselves being hunted. Will the Day of Wrath detonate? And how does Bond's plotting hold up? Well, you know, it's your typical fifth novel's divinely inspired terrorists--and they're not waving sparklers.
Booklist Review
Bond, a former naval intelligence officer, is the author of four best-sellers, Red Phoenix (1989), Vortex (1991), Cauldron (1995), and The Enemy Within (1996). In this "time is running out" thriller, the world's richest man, a Saudi prince, is also a dangerous terrorist who has bought nuclear weapons from Russia. He controls the deadliest terrorist groups on earth, and his plan is to destroy the U.S. He aims a nuclear-armed aircraft at the Pentagon, putting most of Washington inside the bomb's blast and shock radius. Bond's two protagonists from Enemy are back, U.S. Army Colonel Peter Thorn and FBI Special Agent Helen Gray. Again, it's their job to save the world from this evil plot. There are some ghoulish scenes, lots of military jargon, and a few hackneyed phrases (When was the last time anyone said, "I suggest we skedaddle" ?). But Bond probably has another best-seller on his hands, and his fans will be clamoring for it. (Reviewed April 1, 1998)0446516775George Cohen