Blow the House Down

Baer, Robert

ISBN 10: 0739332392 ISBN 13: 9780739332399

Publisher: Random House, 2006

Synopsis

Long obsessed with the abduction and murder of his agency mentor, veteran CIA officer Max Waller continues to investigate the crime, until he suddenly finds himself the target of powerful dark forces within the intelligence community, in a debut novel that presents a plausible alternative history of September 11th. By the author of See No Evil. Simultaneous.

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Review:

Stunning Advance Praise for "Blow the House Down"
"One of the finest espionage novels I've read since the end of the Cold War. Sharp, witty, and chilling; do yourself a big favor and read this." --Nelson DeMille, author of "Night Fall" and "The Lion's Game"
"Moves at jet speed . . . a crackling spy thriller that will leave readers wondering how much may be true." --David Wise, author of "Spy"
"Harrowing . . . pulses with the gritty details only a former intelligence officer could know. Watch out, Tom Clancy, there's a new storyteller in town--and he's actually lived the life he writes about!" --David Ignatius, author of "Agents of Innocence"
"Unputdownable . . . Bob Baer has developed great characters and put them in situations that are devastatingly authentic." --Joseph J. Trento, author of "The Secret History of the CIA"
"Lively . . . an insider's tale about the one unforgivable sin of the intelligence world--not wanting to know." --Thomas Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Intelligence Wars"
"Engrossing and challenging--how do you act when you know what really happened on September 11? Baer is so persuasive, one wonders whether he in fact did know. He certainly writes as if he did." --William F. Buckley, Jr., author of "Miles Gone By" and "Last Call for Blackford Oakes"

"From the Hardcover edition."

Stunning Advance Praise for "Blow the House Down"

"One of the finest espionage novels I've read since the end of the Cold War. Sharp, witty, and chilling; do yourself a big favor and read this." --Nelson DeMille, author of "Night Fall" and "The Lion's Game"

"Moves at jet speed . . . a crackling spy thriller that will leave readers wondering how much may be true." --David Wise, author of "Spy"

"Harrowing . . . pulses with the gritty details only a former intelligence officer could know. Watch out, Tom Clancy, there's a new storyteller in town--and he's actually lived the life he writes about!" --David Ignatius, author of "Agents of Innocence"

"Unputdownable . . . Bob Baer has developed great characters and put them in situations that are devastatingly authentic." --Joseph J. Trento, author of "The Secret History of the CIA"

"Lively . . . an insider's tale about the one unforgivable sin of the intelligence world--not wanting to know." --Thomas Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Intelligence Wars"

"Engrossing and challenging--how do you act when you know what really happened on September 11? Baer is so persuasive, one wonders whether he in fact did know. He certainly writes as if he did." --William F. Buckley, Jr., author of "Miles Gone By" and "Last Call for Blackford Oakes"
"From the Hardcover edition."

About the Author:

Robert Baer spent twenty years running agents from inside the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, operating against Hizballah, Al-Qaeda, and other terrorist organizations, and “was considered perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East” (Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker). His memoir See No Evil was a New York Times bestseller and inspired the movie Syriana starring George Clooney. He lives in Colorado.
From the Hardcover edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0739332392
• ISBN 13: 9780739332399
• Binding: Audio CD