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In Thailand, two men hire a pair of international pirates to smuggle them, a small team of mercenaries, and some equipment aboard a freighter at a Russian port. It's frighteningly easy, and the ship sails east, toward the western coast of North America.
The crew onboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter "Sojourner Truth," stationed in the Bering Sea along the Maritime Boundary Line, is busier than usual, catching fishing vessels on the wrong side of the line, but it's not enough to cause undue alarm.
In Washington, D.C., a CIA analyst has been hearing rumors about the sale of radioactive material and military equipment on the black market in deep Russia but can't get it confirmed.
The analyst, Hugh Rincon, originally from Alaska and more keenly aware than most in Washington of Alaska's vulnerability with its air force base and proximity to the Far East, begins to piece it all together. He can't get anyone to take him seriously, however, least of all the director of the CIA.
Then Hugh learns that his estranged wife, Sarah Lange, is second in command on the "Sojourner Truth" in the Bering Sea at the heart of the potential conflict. And the chase is on.
The first stand-alone thriller from the pen of Dana Stabenow, Edgar Award--winning author of seventeen crime novels, delivers a nail-biting, action-packed read, international in scope and frighteningly real.
Author Notes
Dana Stabenow is the author of the Kate Shugak series for Putnam/Berkley and the Liam Campbell Series for Dutton/Signet.
She lives in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Reviews (4)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Known for two successful Alaskan mystery series (featuring Kate Shugak and Liam Campbell respectively), Edgar-winner Stabenow (Fire and Ice) has crafted a taut, credible thriller that should win her a much larger audience. Opposing resourceful, ruthless and well-funded terrorists ready to bring unimaginable devastation to American shores are a husband-and-wife team: Hugh Rincon, a Langley-based CIA honcho, and Sara Lange, the executive officer aboard the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth, which patrols the Maritime Boundary Line in the northern Pacific Ocean. Globe-hopping action moves from Thailand to Hong Kong, Korea and Russia, culminating in a naval showdown off the Alaskan coast. The author's depictions of the Alaskan environment, its seas, storms and cold, have never been more vivid, while the sea and air operations she recounts are both heroic and enthralling. Stabenow has established herself as a fine mystery writer, but she may have found her true metier with this excellent thriller. Author tour. (Jan. 23) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus Review
In her first stand-alone thriller, Stabenow (A Taint in the Blood, 2004, etc.) pits a Coast Guard cutter against a diabolical terrorist ring armed with a dirty bomb. It begins in a tourist spot in Thailand when a soccer-ball bomb kills 114 people and no one takes credit for the blast. Arlene Harte, journalist and CIA operative who happens to be on the scene, notices an incongruously tranquil pair of Koreans walking through the carnage. She follows them around the world, or at least as far as the limit on her CIA credit card will take her, and watches as the two men board a plane for Moscow, where they visit a notorious Russian arms merchant who soon has an accident. Her boss, Hugh Rincon, receives her report, raises the credit limit on her card and reports the possibility of North Korean terrorism to the director of the CIA, a political appointee concerned mainly with the security in place around his backside. If it's not al Qaeda, he's not buying. So Hugh takes personal charge of the investigation, zeroing in on the Bering Sea, where a U.S. Coast Guard cutter is patrolling the Maritime Boundary Line--a ship whose executive officer is Sara Lange, Hugh's long-distance wife. An exciting premise and the obligatory arrival of the (nautical) cavalry alternate with calming--some might say dull--exposition of politics and technology. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Best known for her Kate Shugak mysteries, Stabenow turns her talent for description to her first stand-alone thriller. As in her Shugak books, Alaska figures closely into the story but here in a much different way. Hugh Rincon and Sara Lange are Alaska natives who, despite being married, have careers that keep them apart: Sara is executive officer on a Coast Guard cutter in Alaskan waters; Hugh gathers information for the CIA, a continent away. When Hugh's discovery of a terrorist plot to drop a dirty bomb on an Alaskan city isn't taken seriously by his own agency, he realizes that it's up to him to save his wife and protect the people in a place he still holds dear. Stabenow's descriptions of the ensuing duel at sea between Sara's cutter and a fishing vessel crawling with armed pirates make for edge-of-seat stuff, more than compensating for a few bumps in the plot. And the creepy, authentic-sounding terrorist scenario will make readers sit up and take notice of a state that some Americans forget is actually there. --Stephanie Zvirin Copyright 2005 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Fans of Stabenow's two Alaska mystery series featuring investigators Kate Shugak and Liam Campbell will recognize her skill with setting and dialog in her first standalone political thriller. The plot involves international terrorists who target the United States with a ship loaded with a dirty bomb, with the narrative shifting between the terrorists and the federal agents who are tracking the operations. As in Stabenow's mysteries, this book features strong character development that even encompasses minor characters. In her acknowledgments, the author notes that she spent 16 days with the U.S. Coast Guard in the Bering Sea, and those experiences bring sharp realism to the ship scenes. To boot, Stabenow is skillful at building suspense. She will find new readers with this foray into the thriller genre, but many of her mystery fans will also enjoy the ride.-Beth Lindsay, Washington State Univ. Lib., Pullman (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.