Black - Softcover

Whitcomb, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446611832 ISBN 13: 9780446611831

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

Selected for the FBI's elite Hostage Rescure Team, Special Agent Jeremy Waller is about to fight terrorism at its source - by diving headlong into a violent world of trapdoor truths and shifting alliances. And he'll have copmany: a beautiful executive more adept at murder than marketing who turns his assignment into a cipher...a rutherless tycoon set on selling a revolutionary technology to terrorists...and a female senator and presidential hopeful charged with an unspeakable crime. Here there is no justice - and only one way out of the darkness: Head even deeper into the shadows.

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Review:

In its account of the zone where webs of technology, finance and intrigue intertwine to create a huge, hidden sensorium, Black offers as exotic and lyrically paranoid a worldview as any Don DeLillo fan could wish for. (James Parker, New York Times Book Review)

Whitcomb uses his insider knowledge of the Bureau and the beltway to create a compelling context-character assassination taken to the next level-for a political thriller. Entertaining election-year read (Booklist)

A neatly constructed debut, with all the black op trimmings.... A thriller debut that's driven by veracity...tethered to a fraught reality that may well be happening right now. (Kirkus Reviews)

Whitcomb parlays the experiences and expertise of a 15-year career with the FBI into a cutting-edge counterterrorism thriller. Imaginative plotting, rock-solid prose, fascinating technology and blasts of furious action will hold readers hostage until th (Publishers Weekly)

Synopsis:

For those chosen to fight terrorism at its source, secrecy is the only imperative - a rule Special Agent Jeremy Waller is about to find out the hard way. Selected for the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team, Agent Waller gives up a life he thought he understood to dive headlong into a violent world of trap- door truths and shifting alliances where the greatest threat may be his own sense of right and wrong. Racing from the FBI's secret training rooms to Arabian deserts, from the halls of Congress to the back rooms of Wall Street, and told with a voice only an insider like Christopher Whitcomb could summon, "Black" lifts the curtain on a world of secret operations and corporate manipulation - a world where Agent Waller discovers that sometimes the only way to get out of the darkness is to head even deeper into the shadows.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0446611832
• ISBN 13: 9780446611831
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 490