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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A novel with a lot of facts. Fun read and of course very scary. ( ) Former CIA operative Richard Bayer's first novel is the story of what could have happened behind the scenes of 9/11 and what might have happened if officials listened to Max Waller. Max is a long time CIA operative who is given an easy job in Langley at the end of his career. He's bothered by a photo he sees with Osama bin Laden and a person in Western clothing with their head carefully cut out of the photo. He shows the phot to a friend to see what he might know. Max's friend takes the photo with him and soon after is dead. Then, people begin following Max. When Max evades his followers, he's brought in for questioning. Officials want to know why his prints are on the photo. WIth that and other trumped up charges, he's placed on administrative leave. He continues to investigate, calling on old associates but officials look at him as a man who's time has past. There are puzzles and complications as Max goes on. However, Max never seems likable and seemed too self centered. The action comes in waves and then slows down as facts and documents are presented. This lessened the suspense of the novel. With the level of espionage, I think that fans of John le Carre would enjoy this book and I look forward to another book by the author who has demonstrated that he has the knowledge that could make a good story. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Former CIA operative Robert Baer pushes fiction to the absolute limit in this riveting and unnervingly plausible alternative history of 9/11. Veteran CIA officer Max Waller has long been obsessed with the abduction and murder of his Agency mentor. Though years of digging yield the name of a suspect--an Iranian math genius turned terrorist--the trail seems too cold to justify further effort. Then Max turns up a photograph of the man standing alongside Osama bin Laden and a mysterious westerner whose face has been cut out, feeding Max's suspicion. When the first official to whom Max shows the photo winds up dead, the out-of-favor agent suddenly finds himself the target of dark forces within the intelligence community who are desperate to muzzle him. Eluding a global surveillance net, Max--in the summer of 2001--begins tracking the spore of a complex conspiracy, meeting clandestinely with suicide bombers and Arab royalty and ultimately realizing the Iranian he'd sought for a decades-old crime is actually at the nexus of a terrifying plot. Showing off dazzling tradecraft and an array of richly textured backdrops, and filled with real names and events, Blow the House Down deftly balances fact and possibility to become the first great thriller to spring from the war on terrorism. Also available as a Random House AudioBook and an eBook Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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