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Bezig met laden... Burning the Apostledoor Bill Granger
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Onderdeel van de reeks(en)November Man (13)
"The cold war is dead. Yet new, even more frightening wars have sprung up elsewhere. The field of battle for Devereaux - code name November - as been outside the American border, until now. In Burning The Apostle, the best November Man novel yet, Devereaux must turn his finely tooled spymaster's art to the enemy within, the most elusive and dangerous enemy of all." "The stage is Washington and Chicago. The conflict is driven by demagogues, with their narrow special interests and private agendas, and the arrogant, corrupt politicians willing to go along with them." "Britta Andrews, a bright, beautiful heiress with a radical environmental consciousness, joins with former army ordnance officer Max Escher. Their goal: to hatch an audacious plan that can destroy the civilian nuclear energy industry in one bold stroke. Their method: burn down a single Midwestern nuclear plant called The Apostle, creating a Chernobyl-like cloud of poison that will shock and outrage the world. The financing for the plot is to come from a mysterious Lebanese source, the International Credit Clearinghouse. Covertly allied to the conspirators is Michael Horan, the playboy U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and Britta's lover. The scenario explodes with a massive, brilliantly conceived fire inside the Pentagon that nearly shuts it down. Drawn into the nightmare web of events is Devereaux, now senior advisor in R Section." "Yet even Devereaux can't foresee the global breadth and lethal complexity of the threat that is to gradually enmesh him. In less than twenty-four hours, the November Man will have to defuse the most potentially devastating act of sabotage in history - and avenge an agonizingly personal injustice." "Burning The Apostle is a masterpiece of suspense, sensuality, and authorial style-hallmarks in the craft of espionage fiction that fans of Bill Granger and the November Man series have come to expect."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.75)
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Excellent post-Cold War spy novel, one of Granger’s “November Man” series.The operatives in Section R are trying to discover how and why money is being laundered through a bank owned by one of the richest men in the world who happens to be friends with an important Senator who, in turn, is illicit friends with Britta Andrews, a leggy blonde with millions.
Devereaux, one of the operatives, had blackmailed Carroll Claymore, who worked for the bank’s owner, Clair Dodsworth, into supplying the section with intelligence information. In the meantime, Britta has enlisted a terrorist to “make a statement.” Her father had been a radical who had blown himself up while constructing a bomb. Her plan is to set the Apostle nuclear power plant on fire in such a way that the resulting radioactive plume would kill thousands of people thereby ruining the reputation of nuclear power and saving the planet. (The Apostle plant is clearly patterned about the Byron nuclear plant seventeen miles from where I live. It’s described as being sixty some miles west of Chicago and south of Rockford, Illinois. As an aside, Britta’s proposals are not so far-fetched after hearing Derrick Jensen speak. Then again, Jensen reminds me so much of radicals in the sixties; same language, just different target.)
But then the Arabs running the ICC and controlling the bank want to know what Britta plans as they would appear to conflict with their own. Britta has her own ideas.
More like LeCarre than Fleming, the spies lie, the bureaucrats equivocate, lines of responsibility are blurred, the people fail in their personal lives, and the little people just try to survive. It’s a funny world we live in where we celebrate security and do our utmost to be safe but hire ex-cons and drug-addicts for minimum wage to do our due diligence; and then we wonder why things go wrong.
Can’t remember how I ran across Granger but he came highly recommended and as his stories take place in the Chicago area, I ordered a few from the library. He has several series in addition to the November Man, another about a Chicago cop. I’m surprised they haven’t been rereleased as ebooks. They should be. Used copies are going for a lot of money. (