Triple Cross [Hardcover]

Mark T. Sullivan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 14, 2009

"TRIPLE CROSS is a smart, prescient thriller that makes one wonder why the bottom really dropped out of the stock market.  The story snaps and twists like a cracking whip, you can't help but root for Mickey Hennessey and his kids, and I defy you to guess the ending.  Mark T. Sullivan has written a super-charged bestseller and surefire motion picture!" --Robert Crais

    The Jefferson Club is a remote, private resort for the super-rich – the buildings, the amenities, and the security are state of the art and beyond compare.  Many of the world’s wealthiest people – business leaders, entrepreneurs, politicians, celebrities – gather for the most exclusive New Year’s Eve party in the world.  As expensive champagne flows and multibillion dollar deals are arranged, the unimaginable happens – a highly trained, heavily armed paramilitary force calling itself the Third Position Army breaches the world’s best security system and takes everybody hostage.

     “Mickey” Hennessey, former U.S. Special Agent, is the head of security for the Jefferson Club.  A divorced father of three teenagers, he’s spending the holiday with his kids.  When the club is attacked, his entire team is wiped out and only he makes it out of the club alive.  Now he’s outside while his kids are trapped inside, hostages of the Third Position Army who are putting seven of the ten richest men on “trial” for their crimes against humanity, live on the internet for the world to see.  While a top FBI rescue team works feverishly to rescue all the hostages, Hennessey is determined to do all he can, to overcome  every obstacle, to ensure his children’s safety – or die trying.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Bestseller Sullivan's first thriller since 2003's The Serpent's Kiss displays his usual knack for setting and scenario. On New Year's Eve during a snowstorm, members of the Third Position Army, a group devoted to fighting corporate greed, seize the Jefferson Club, a twelve-thousand-acre ultra-private resort for the super-rich, in southwest Montana. General Anarchy, the group's leader, and his troops free most of the vacationers, but take the world's six richest men hostage and sequentially put them on trials broadcast over the Internet. Summary executions follow in most cases. The twist: the 14-year-old triplets of the club's security chief, Mickey Hennessy, manage to squirrel themselves away within the resort's back rooms and stealthily work to foil the terrorists. Vile villains, the inevitable romance and the children-in-peril dynamic move the plot efficiently if predictably toward the harrowing finale in the rugged wilderness. This is a solid return for Sullivan, but a place keeper at best. (Apr.)
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From Booklist

New Year’s Eve finds half a dozen of the richest men in the world celebrating at the Jefferson Club, a spectacularly exclusive private club in the mountains of Montana. But the celebration is halted by a helicopter assault by the Third Position Army, a group that says it is revolting against “corporate tyranny.” Most of the guests are freed, but the financial barons are held for trial by a people’s court, and the trials are webcast live, as the FBI marshals a counter-terrorist force. But after the presentation of evidence at the trials, the world is invited to vote for guilt or innocence, and the “guilty” plutocrats are dispatched—on camera—in novel and grisly ways. Terrorism meets reality TV. Triple Cross is crisply written, breathlessly paced, suspenseful, and simultaneously fanciful yet nearly plausible. Sullivan may have telegraphed the big surprise ending a bit, but most readers will give him a pass because this is an almost-addictive page-turner. --Thomas Gaughan

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition (April 14, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312378505
• ISBN-13: 978-0312378509
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #970,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read this book......., May 18, 2009

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BJ "Brett Starr" (East Peoria, IL United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Triple Cross (Hardcover)

A great all around book!

I first came across "Triple Cross" through an email newsletter that has a list of upcoming release books. "Triple Cross" caught my eye and I picked it up the day it was available.

It's a thriller, thats written like a great action movie, with a great storyline, amazing characters and several plot twists that make for a non-stop read. This is one of those books, you won't want to put down.

The Jefferson Club, where the richest of the rich men come to relax & vacation. On this particular New Year's Eve, seven of the ten richest men are taken hostage by a heavily armed paramilitary eco-terrorist squad calling themselves "The Third Position Army", they plan to put the men on trial, one by one. They also plan to broadcast the trials through the internet and let the viewers vote. The main character, Mickey Hennessey is the Jefferson Club head security guard, a former Secret Service agent. After the initial attack on the club, Mickey Hennessey is trapped outside, wounded and his three triplets, Connor, Bridger & Hailey are stuck inside.

"Triple Cross" has a little bit of something for everyone. The story is intriguing and has alot of current / recent real events mixed into the story, including alot about fraudulent stock market trading.

I'd never heard of Mark T. Sullivan before this book, apparently his previous six books havent made a huge splash here in the states, but he's well known in Germany. After reading and thoroughly enjoying "Triple Cross", I plan to check out Mark's future books and a few of his previous novels!

It's a great read if you like thrillers, you won't be disappointed with this one and you might even learn something, I did!

Search the web for more information about the real Jefferson Club, actually called the Yellowstone Club near the Big Sky ski resort, Montana!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic work of genius, May 23, 2009

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BevE "BevE" (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Triple Cross (Hardcover)

Mark T. Sullivan's new anti globalist thriller is a daring work of fiction in our present economic turmoil. This was one book that was hard to put down. Though at first it seemed to follow the usual predictable path of a special interest group out to prove it's point by terrorizing the elite, Mr. Sullivan's book takes a few turns that leaves the reader comparing the author's fiction to the facts of our faltering capitalism today. It's difficult not to become personally involved with the book, when our daily headlines read about corruption and trading that has brought companies to their knees. And just when you think you have it figured out, there's another revelation. The ending is a fantastic work of genius. If you love action/adventure Triple Cross is not to be missed. I absolutely loved this book.

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4.0 out of 5 stars 4 1/2 Stars Fast and Exciting, May 14, 2009

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Konrad Kern (OFallon, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Triple Cross (Hardcover)

In his latest fast moving novel, Mark Sullivan proves he knows how to write a good thriller.
The plot revolves around a group of some of the worlds richest and most powerful men, who have come together for a very selective New Years Eve party in an exclusive southwest Montana resort, when a large group of some very well trained terrorists storm the resort and hold this group captive.
What ensues is both exciting and riveting reading. Mickey Hennessey and Cheyenne O'Neil, two of the protagonists are very engaging and likeable characters. A very well rounded thriller concerning everything from global markets to the power of the internet (along with a very interesting use for it). The action scenes just seemed to go a little over the top, but other than that this was one heck of a thriller.