Phantom - Softcover

Ted Bell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062130013 ISBN 13: 9780062130013

Publisher: William Morrow, 2012

Synopsis

Counterspy Alex Hawke hunts a madman about to unleash a new super weapon--one powered by Artificial Intelligence--in this latest thriller in the New York Times bestselling series.

Counterspy Alex Hawke must find a villainous Iranian A.I. scientist named Darius Saffari, the mastermind behind a terrifying new weapon--the world's first ultra-intelligent machine.

Darius's substantial funding comes from the president and the mullahs in Tehran, and they demand some demonstrations that Darius is making progress. So Darius sets in motion a series of inexplicable, horrifying events around the world. A Russian sub in the Caribbean is seized by some kind of force that causes it to sink an American cruise ship with torpedoes. American anti-ballistic missiles mysteriously explode in their silos. Then a USAF F-15 that has been escorting Air Force One inexplicably launches sidewinder missiles at the big bird--while the president himself is aboard.

Hawke, who has just returned from a dangerous hostage rescue mission at a secret KGB training facility, is called into action. He and his MI6 colleague Ambrose Congreve see a link between the weird events and determine that it could only be the work of some superhuman intelligence. But who is behind it?

In a hunt that takes them from Palo Alto, California, to Putin's mega-yacht off Cap d'Antibe in the south of France, to Moscow, and Cambridge University, Hawke and his friend begin to close in on Darius and plan his destruction. The climactic showdown occurs in the Persian Gulf in an epic sea battle as Hawke takes on Iranian warships and goes nose to nose with an enemy that isn't even human--it's superhuman.

About this title

About the Author

Ted Bell is the former Vice-Chairman of the board and World-Wide Creative Director of Young & Rubicam, one of the world's largest advertising agencies. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Hawke, Assassin, Pirate, Spy, Tsar, and Nick of Time, the first in a series of YA adventure novels.

Edition details

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062130013
• ISBN 13: 9780062130013
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496