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Steve Shagan PILLARS OF FIRE
Pocket 1990 067168938X / 9780671689384 MM Very Good
067168938X 067168938X From Publishers Weekly Threatened by Libya's purchase of nuclear warheads, Israel plots to destroy Libyan launch sites and the neo-Nazi German firm that manufactures the weapons. Shagan "devotes excessive space to a subplot marginal to the novel's resolution. Otherwise, the complex story line is handled well," remarked PW . Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Shagan's ( Vendetta, LJ 7/86) latest thriller is set in the immediate future and is an all too plausible extrapolation of today's news. Tom Lawford, a successful journalist and deep cover CIA agent, is assigned to help Israeli intelligence locate a missile launch site somewhere in the Libyan desert. His cover story is the investigation of a German company, controlled by aging Nazi rocket pioneers, which is exporting technology to Libya. All indications point to the rockets being used for a nuclear strike against Israel with war heads developed at a Pakistani nuclear research center. The nonstop action, which prevents disaster with seconds to spare, covers several countries and contains a neatly presented, and solved, technical problem. Great escapist reading, despite its terrifying possibility. - John North, NorCom Enterprises, Toronto Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1.69 USD
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