The Skorpion Directive (Micah Dalton) [Hardcover]

David Stone (Author)

Book Description

Series: Micah Dalton | Publication Date: April 29, 2010

The brilliant new Micah Dalton thriller from the New York Times bestselling author.

In Vienna for a top-secret meeting with ex-Mossad agent Issadore Galan, Micah Dalton senses that something is very wrong on the streets of the Ring District. Dalton's aggressive response to enemy surveillance makes him the target of a complex plot with the potential to shatter America's strategic alliances with the rest of the civilized world. Planned by an unknown foreign power and executed by a scarred Serbian killer known only as Smoke, the conspiracy pits Dalton against an ultrasecret U.S. agency and a cadre of trained KGB killers. In a blistering trajectory of events that takes him from Venice to the Balkans and the barren shoreline of North Africa, Dalton pushes himself to the edge of sanity in a desperate attempt to save his honor-and his life.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Bestseller Stone's entertaining fourth thriller featuring Micah Dalton (after The Venetian Judgment) takes the CIA cleaner (an operative who cleans up the mess after an agency mission has gone awry) to Vienna, where Micah finds himself being followed by a team of agents of unknown origin. In short order, Micah captures one of his pursuers, Veronika Miklas; beds her; fights off an attack by two killers; and goes on the lam, with Veronika voluntarily joining him. Soon everyone wants Micah dead, including his own CIA handlers. An old buddy, Ray Fyke, who's exactly what Micah Dalton needs despite Ray's reputation as a crazed killer and a drunk, joins Micah and Veronika on a body-strewn rampage through Europe in an effort to learn why Micah has become a marked man. While the nearly nonstop action and the consistently interesting lead character will keep readers turning the pages, a limp ending disappoints. (May)
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About the Author

David Stone is the cover name for a man born into a military family with a long history of honorable service. Stone has served in the military, has worked as an intelligence officer and as an investigator for a state-level law enforcement agency, and has lived and worked in North America, Central America, and Southeast Asia.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Putnam Adult (April 29, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399156321
• ISBN-13: 978-0399156328
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #835,747 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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David Stone is the cover name for a man born into a military family with a long history of honorable service. Stone has served in the military, has worked as an intelligence officer and as an investigator for a state-level law enforcement agency, and has lived and worked in North America, Central America, and Southeast Asia.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 4 1/2 Star Thriller, May 9, 2010

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Konrad Kern (OFallon, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Skorpion Directive (Micah Dalton) (Hardcover)

Traveling to Vienna to meet with a former Mossad
agent, Micah Dalton finds himself targeted by a
complex plot designed to shatter America's strategic
alliances, a conspiracy that pits him against a secret
U.S. agency and a cadre of trained KGB assassins.
This is the fourth in a series featuring Micah Dalton, a
CIA officer, also known as a cleaner and fixer in the
clandestine world.
This author and his protagonist has really grown on me.
I love all his thrillers, and to me they are all comparable
to Ludlum when he was in his hey days. If you love international
spy thrillers you can't go wrong with David Stone.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great conspiratorial espionage thriller, April 30, 2010

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Skorpion Directive (Micah Dalton) (Hardcover)

CIA "cleaner" Micah Dalton is in Vienna meeting with former-Mossad field operative Issadore Galan when he feels something is not right. Used to cleaning up the mess of failed operations, he fears he will need a cleaner too, as he quickly realizes that he is under surveillance by unknown assumed to be hostile enemies. Not one to sit back and wait, Micah catches one of them, Veronika Miklas.

After sex, he flees with her accompanying him following a failed assault on him. Someone wants Micah dead, but he is unsure why; especially since his CIA contacts and handlers are part of the death squad pursuers. He turns to his alcoholic psychopathic friend Ray Fyke to insure he has his back covered. As the trio travels to the Balkans, the former KGB assassins, an American top secret agency, other espionage groups, and Smoke the Serbian killer follow with death to the threesome as their mantra.

The latest Cleaner espionage thriller (see The Venetian Judgment, The Echelon Vendetta and The Orpheus Deception) is a great conspiratorial story line filed with action, action and more action. The cast is especially powerful including the enigmatic killing machine Smoke while the locales enhance the exciting plot. Genre fans will enjoy The Skorpian Directive as someone high up has decided to clean the cleaner.

Harriet Klausner

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Skorpion Directive, September 22, 2011

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Robert H. Rock - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Skorpion Directive (Micah Dalton) (Hardcover)

As usual Mr. Stone has written another truly action packed novel. I put the character Micah Dalton in the same class with Sean Dillon and Mitch Rapp.