Shock And Awe by David Isaak
Ex-special forces operative Carla Smukowski is struggling to come to terms with her brother’s murder by Islamic militants, but she’s unwilling to make peace with a world which has betrayed her. Her collaborator – and sometimes lover – is Boyce Hammond, an FBI agent who’s been undercover so long he’s forgotten where his loyalties lie.
Smukowski, Hammond and their squad of American terrorists – the so-called Ethan Allen Brigade – seize a shipment of high-level nuclear waste, intending to make a radiological ‘dirty bomb’ for an attack that will inflame the Islamic world. But just as Hammond begins to fear the group he has infiltrated might pull off their insane scheme, the stolen shipment is snatched from them by a group of extremist every bit as dangerous – and now America itself is the target.
Packed with breathtaking action scenes, political insight and unforgettable characters, Shock and Awe turns the terrorist novel on its head: a subversive action thriller for a new era.
David Isaak has been a dishwasher, a farm laborer, a night watchman, a dock worker, a counselor, a government researcher, an academic, and vice-president of an international consulting firm.
A high-school dropout, he later went on to earn a BSc in Physics and a PhD in Resource Systems. He is an expert on international energy, and has worked in about three dozen countries, mostly in the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. He has co-authored three books and many monographs on energy issues.
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