By Gordon Kent
With twists as harrowing as a high-g-force flip, opposed touch is classic Gordon Kent: an electrifying mixture of army suspense and espionage mystery. In it, army intelligence officer Alan Craik returns to motion, strapping himself in for a wild experience right into a harmful, without borderlines realm of spies, counterspies, and high-tech conflict on either side of a most likely deadly conflict--between China and the U.S.A. adversarial touch whilst Alan Craik and NCIS agent Mike Dukas spearheaded a hunt for a traitor contained in the CIA, they landed in the midst of a firefight--and made a few very robust enemies. inside of Washington, a few nonetheless worship the arch undercover agent Craik and Dukas took down--and now those males are plotting their revenge. With their services in counterespionage, Craik and Dukas were lured into an operation that might positioned them in touch with the chinese language, an operation with just one genuine goal: to spoil them either. yet whereas they be aware of larger than to take something at face price, Craik and Dukas can't bet how one other participant will form the sport. Their touch in Jakarta is a chinese language double agent jogging a excessive cord among his handlers, because the chinese language look for a mom lode of cash misplaced at the covert battlefield.Craik is usually maintaining down his day activity, flying a sub hunter S-3B filled with high-tech apparatus off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. with his astronaut-to-be spouse, Rose, Craik and his workforce are performing on intercepts of a “ghost” radio whose goal they could purely bet. Craik's services in intelligence tells him to begin trying to find an unseen, unknown submarine which may be lurking off Whidbey Island--with the power to strike a demise blow opposed to the Navy's most crucial missile-loaded subs. all of sudden Craik is thrust right into a mystery battle raging from the guts of Beijing to the depths of the Pacific, as espionage and sub looking come jointly in a chase to rescue a chinese language defector and his relatives, whereas a U.S. army service crew is threatened by way of antagonistic suicide boats performing on focusing on details from a submarine.From the Hardcover variation.
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He ordered a gin and tonic from a waiter, sat, and looked at his watch. Two hours and ten minutes since the phone had rung in his room and he had hung it up. The last time he had worked in Jakarta, he’d been following orders from George Shreed. Now he would set up an operation to avenge him. It had an Asian air to it, like an episode in the tale of the Forty-Seven Ronin. He lifted the phone. Suburban Virginia. “Sleeping Dog was an NSA case, and then it was a Bureau case, and then it was a CIA case.
Bang. Not such a long shot, but iffy because of the visibility. Then noise and a lot of running around; I leave the gun, just like Oswald in Dallas; I head for the stairs — He raised his head to look at the steep, winding staircase, then craned to look down. There was better cover from the leaves where he was, one now-huge tree masking most of the front of Treetops. A sober man without a hangover could shinny down the old scaffolding unseen. Climb down, no sweat, there’s a lot of uproar, our team is making noise and providing a diversion—what?
On the left-hand wheel as you stand behind the gun. Okay? He leaves the mark, that means the clock is running and the first meeting time is next morning at nine-ten. ” “I want you to check Si Jagur every day, starting today. You’ll have to set up a route that takes you there, going someplace you usually go. ” Jerry wanted something sweet, which he hoped would absorb or minimize or anodize or do whatever the hell sugar did to alcohol. If the alcohol he’d taken in was still alcohol, and not some poisonous shit that it turned into after it hit the gut.