Deep Black (35 page)

LIBERTY

Admiral Jake Grafton is working counter-terrorism in the wake of the September 11th attacks when Janos Illin—the highly placed
Russian intelligence agent from
America
—delivers chilling news: a rogue general has sold four nuclear warheads to a radical al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist faction.
Smuggled out of Pakistan after a vicious firefight, the deadly weapons are believed to be headed for the United States. Taking
the report to his superiors, Grafton is charged by the president with assembling a secret team and uncovering the plot before
America's population centers are consumed in the flames of nuclear holocaust. To that end, Grafton calls out his biggest guns,
all familiar faces from previous Coonts bestsellers: the indomitable Toad Tarkington and CIA super-spy Tommy Carmellini as
well as reactivating old friends, contacts, and even enemies to form the most elite anti-terrorist team in history. Now, incorporating
the most advanced spying technology with know-how, guts, and determination, Grafton's team must do the impossible: uncover
a conspiracy that threatens civilization and stop it!

“Rivals Clancy for fiction-as-realism and Cussler for spirited action.”

—
Publishers Weekly
(starred review) on
America

“[A] thriller roller-coaster action.”

—
The Philadelphia Inquirer
on
America

LIBERTY 2/03