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Islamic and Christian fundamentalists unleash a well-coordinated series of attacks all across the American heartland. Stolen radioactive material, a high-level spy, a mysterious break into top-secret data-encryption technology, twisting plots and spiraling conspiracies are all linked with fast-paced, cinematic crosscutting.
In this thriller, FBI agent Jeremy Waller returns, as does tough-as-nails Elizabeth Beechum, now vice president, and the enigmatic billionaire Jordan Mitchell.
Author Notes
He is an active, fifteen-year veteran of the FBI & Director of Intelligence for the Critical Incident Response Group. He is a recipient of the FBI's Medal of Bravery for exceptional courage in the line of duty & he has participated in virtually every high-profile federal investigation in recent years.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
The hero of Black (2004) returns to star in a thriller plot that's pretty familiar, but which becomes steadily more absorbing through understated treatment and well-done incidentals. Jeremy Waller, a dedicated family man and FBI special agent, is on his way back from Indonesia, where he was rooting out terrorists with a lethal sidekick known as G.I. Jane, when a fleet of terrorist planes attacks not only Washington but a handful of other American cities. Could American fundamentalists be in league with Islamic terrorists? Such speculation is only the tip of the cabalistic iceberg as Waller infiltrates a shadow arm of the Christian Identity movement called the Phineas Priesthood. Black's Senator Elizabeth Beechum is back, a political veteran with questionable ties to big business, as vice president; she and na?ve, skittish new President David Ray Venable clash repeatedly. Whitcomb, a 15-year veteran of the FBI, is dead-on with the tech talk and introduces a slew of tight plot lines and characters (time line location headings help) before bringing everything together complexly and believably. Agent, Suzanne Gluck. 6-city author tour. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
A restless thriller from Whitcomb, returning with many in the appealing cast from his debut, Black (2004). In this tale of terrorist activities designed to bring down the U.S. government, the threat may come from within, rather than from an infiltrating Islamic group. While on a black operation for the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, Jeremy Waller identifies an unexpected Caucasian presence in the midst of Islamic extremists, an albino operative who manages to escape the HRT's deadly fusillade. Jeremy's conscience is at play; he isn't happy about "the lack of oversight and interest. No one seemed to question rule of law in the war on terror." The terrorists' acts ratchet up big-time: Huge blasts level Disney World and shopping complexes. The neophyte president refuses to sleep and becomes a zombie; the VP orders his drugging; more bombs destroy the Alaskan pipeline and the entire western power grid. Meanwhile, Jordan Mitchell of the Borders Atlantic company, which designs untraceable cell phones, is working behind the scenes to . . . well, it's not quite clear what he's up to. Nor is it clear what crack female agents Sirad and G.I. Jane are up to, but they certainly have quite a time doing it. Whitcomb keeps the action on boil, jumping from principal to principal. He enjoys details, writing of a "stainless-steel Les Baer .45 comp gun...in a DeSantis speed-draw holster," or "the Nguyen cornerstone or stochastic wave generation theory or Camus algorithms." The surprising and gratifying aspect of this palaver is that the author explains what it means. And when white supremacists say things like "the Philistines--the gutter gods of Islam--will never rest," the plausibility factor is covered: The author is an HRT veteran. Whitcomb adeptly keeps many balls in the air in this artful shell game of suspense. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Maybe we've become easier to scare since 9/11, but Whitcomb leaves nothing to chance in this fully loaded follow-up to Black (2004). A blizzard is crippling the nation's capital while an untried new president is arranging his tchotchkes in the Oval Office, and an unlikely fellowship of Islamic and Christian fundamentalists unleashes a well-coordinated series of attacks all across the American heartland. Stir in stolen radioactive material, a high-level sleeper spy, a mysterious invasion into top-secret data-encryption technology, detailed weapons specifications, an alphabet soup of government TLAs (three letter agencies), twisting plots and spiraling conspiracies, a wild-card agent called G.I. Jane, and a one-eyed albino, all linked with fast-paced, cinematic crosscutting, and you've got more than enough thriller to keep fans of David Hagberg, Brian Haig, Vince Flynn, or Andy McNab happy. FBI agent Jeremy Waller returns, as does tough-as-nails Elizabeth Beechum, now vice president, and the enigmatic billionaire Jordan Mitchell, who still seems like something out of James Bond. Over the top? Only if you stop to think about it, and who wants to do that? Pass the sunscreen. --David Wright Copyright 2005 Booklist
Library Journal Review
FBI agent Jeremy Waller, who's stalking a terrorist, must decide whether the new guys in town are top-secret agents here to help or serious traitors. From the author of Black, which has already gone through several printings; with a six-city tour. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.