Pipeline - Softcover

Schechter, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061687421 ISBN 13: 9780061687426

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2010

Synopsis

“A white-knuckle ride through a…crisis that threatens the world as we know it.”
—Newsweek

 

In Peter Schechter’s Pipeline—a riveting follow-up to his widely praised debut Point of Entry—a harsh spotlight illuminates the global race to secure the next generation of energy sources and the power that goes along with it. A well-connected Washington Beltway insider, Schechter has written a novel ripped from today’s headlines and based on chilling fact—a thriller that blends the intelligence and authenticity of John Le Carrè with the page-turning, adrenaline-pumping velocity of Robert Ludlum and Michael Crichton and which the Washington Times praises as, “entertaining and sobering.”

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In the heart of a blistering summer, blackouts in California are causing panic and chaos. People are dying in darkened hospitals. Dangerous convicts are escaping from a Sacramento prison through the powered-down electric fences.

In South America, a meeting between an influential Peruvian senator and the managers of a gargantuan natural gas company could change the balance of power in the Western Hemisphere forever.

A call from the White House in the dead of night plunges special assistant to the president Tony Ruiz into a dark and hellish nightmare. A new Cold War has dawned—at stake is nothing less than America's survival—as a handful of insiders race to save their country from a ruthless, re-emergent enemy wielding the most devastating weapon of all: energy.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061687421
• ISBN 13: 9780061687426
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 304