Black
Published on 18. July 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
488 pages
978-0-446-61183-1 (ISBN)
Description
Selected for the FBI's elite Hostage Rescure Team, Special Agent Jeremy Waller is about to fight terrorism at its source - by diving headlong into a violent world of trapdoor truths and shifting alliances. And he'll have copmany: a beautiful executive more adept at murder than marketing who turns his assignment into a cipher...a rutherless tycoon set on selling a revolutionary technology to terrorists...and a female senator and presidential hopeful charged with an unspeakable crime. Here there is no justice - and only one way out of the darkness: Head even deeper into the shadows.
Reviews / Votes
In its account of the zone where webs of technology, finance and intrigue intertwine to create a huge, hidden sensorium, Black offers as exotic and lyrically paranoid a worldview as any Don DeLillo fan could wish for. * James Parker, New York Times Book Review * Whitcomb uses his insider knowledge of the Bureau and the beltway to create a compelling context-character assassination taken to the next level-for a political thriller. Entertaining election-year read * Booklist * A neatly constructed debut, with all the black op trimmings.... A thriller debut that's driven by veracity...tethered to a fraught reality that may well be happening right now. * Kirkus Reviews * Whitcomb parlays the experiences and expertise of a 15-year career with the FBI into a cutting-edge counterterrorism thriller. Imaginative plotting, rock-solid prose, fascinating technology and blasts of furious action will hold readers hostage until th * Publishers Weekly *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (UK-A)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
584 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-446-61183-1 (9780446611831)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Christopher Whitcomb is a 15 year veteran of the FBI who won the coveted Medal of Bravery. He is founder and chief executive of Watch House International, a global secured infrastructure development company.