The clock is ticking toward an inexorable deadline... Three years after 9/11, terrorists have hidden an atomic bomb in the heart of New York. If the President of the United States does not force his Israeli allies to abandon all the land they have occupied in the aftermath of the 1967 War, New York will be wiped off the face of the earth. Will he give in to this blackmail? Could a terrorist group have really gotten access to an atomic bomb and smuggled it into the United States? Can't the forces of the most powerful nation on the planet find the hidden bomb and defuse it before it can explode? Could they, if necessary, evacuate New York? Researched for two years, the authors studied reams of documents and interviewed scores of people from the most secret centers in the war on terrorism.
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A master Palestinian terrorist seeking retribution against Israel hooks up first with Saddam and then, after Saddam's capture, with Osama; through the latter, he acquires a nuclear bomb from Pakistan, ships it to New York and, with a crew babysitting it, threatens to detonate the bomb unless Israel withdraws to the pre-1967 borders—within five days. The rest of this novel from the late Collins (The Road to Armageddon), who died this past June, and collaborator Lapierre, is basically a procedural: what does the U.S. government do, and how does it do it, as the hours tick by. All of the characterizations are cardboard, but they're convincing enough to sustain the book: there are fictionalizations of everyone from Saddam and bin Laden to Bush, Ariel Sharon, Pervez Musharraf and New York mayor Mike Bloomberg. There's a particularly touching interaction between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the rogue Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan. The FBI and police work is reasonably realized. Early chapters patiently and sympathetically render the logic of and reasoning behind the Islamist nuclear threat, but the real twist comes on day four, when the U.S. government begins mobilizing for possible military action against Israel to force a withdrawal from the West Bank. The publisher claims 350,000 hardcover copies already in print in Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French and Polish; one imagines it has little to do with the quality of the writing. (Nov.)
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About the Author
Larry Collins has been a captain of the Los Angeles County Fire Department's central USAR Company since 1990. He has been involved in rescue operations worldwide, including the Pentagon collapse during the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the Alfred P. Murrah Building bombing in Oklahoma City, as well as numerous natural disasters such as the Northridge (CA) earthquake. Collins has been awarded multiple medals of valor for distinguished service.
Lapierre donates half his royalties to support humanitarian causes in India.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Rip-off,
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This review is from: Is New York Burning? (Hardcover)
Lapierre and Collins have plagiarized their own work. In 1980, they published a novel called "The Fifth Horseman," which was exactly the same as this one except that it's been updated, and where the villian in the first version was Khaddafi, it's now Osama Bin Laden. Same atomnic weapon smuggled into New York, same NY detective solves the case. How shameful to repackage the same dumb plot by changing a few names. The name of the publisher gives it all away: Phoenix House.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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For age group 5-8...,
By Wheretic (India) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Is New York Burning? (Hardcover)
...and that too 'cos the tots can maybe learn a few famous names across the globe while reading this tripe.But even they won't be taken in by the flimsy plot and the almost comical unravelling.From the onset of the nuclear 'threat' the denouement becomes irritatingly obvious and the only feel-good factor about this book is that every reader will definitely come out thinking that he can do an infinitely better job than the authors....go read 3 little pigs,anyday more creative and more intense.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
One of the worst pieces of writing ever,
This review is from: Is New York Burning? (Hardcover)
I agree with "The Reader"'s review. I can't believe the authors really wrote this book. I wanted to give up a few pages into the reading but since I had spent my money (unwisely) on buying one instead of (wisely) renting it, I plowed through to the end. The dialogues are laughably artificial, the plot is moronic, and the cliches make the reading pure torture. Please avoid this book like the plague. Spend your time and money elsewhere. I wish I could give this a negative 5 stars but 1 is the lowest I am allowed to go.
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