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DOOMSDAY SPIRAL

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"The Doomsday Spiral" is Jon Land's first published work. It's long out-of-print, but a definite "must read" if you can locate a copy. Land's novels are always entertaining, but this one is the best of his that I have read.

The story centers around a plot by a thought-to-be-deceased madman to eliminate half the population of the United States. However, this would not be done by obvious means -- nuclear or biochemical warfare. Three agents are sought by the U.S. to prevent the madman from implementing his plan. Friends come and go via various means, all which make the battle that much more difficult.

Like all great espionage thrillers, this one grabs the reader from the start and never stops until the book ends. There are betrayals, multiple gunfights, deaths of key and/or well-liked characters. The story's rapid pace will keep a reader enthralled long into the night. Like Land's other works, he presents a well thought and prepared story with all the elements that make a great espionage/technothriller.

The hero of this book is Alabaster whose real name is David Rabanine. He is actually a Mossad assassin. He begins the story by hunting a terrorist named Abad Salim. Alabaster finds out that he is hiding in Haifa. Alabaster finds him and kills him. Meanwhile in America another problem has popped up. A journalism student takes a photograph of a group of Arab gentlemen in Orovidence,Rhode Island. He mails the pictures to Leslie Kirkman. Eventually the CIA discovers that members of Black September are alive and well in
America. Most notable amongthe men is Abu Hassan better known as the Red Prince. Their executioner Seif is to kill John Desmond of the CIA David Rabanine of Mossad because they are capable of stopping their plan. It is finally that a Nazi plot is set to be hatched by
Black September. This plan will eliminate half of America's population.Alabaster has to sift through leads all over the world to get to the bottom of the evil plan. All of this leads to an exciting book that you cannot put down. Be sure to read it.