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In The Kill Box, Air Force Captain Charlie McKay is chosen to lead one of the most desperate military missions ever: destruction of the biological weapons laboratory hidden deep beneath the Iraqi desert bands. Air Force One, returning from Kuwait, has crashed. All aboard, including the vice-president and former President, are dead, killed not by the crash but by a virus of unknown origin. The threat is immediate, blunt, and terrifying. The President vows retaliation, not knowing that Washington D.C. is also targeted for biological destruction. As the clock ticks down to biological Armageddon, all personnel at the giant Air Force Base in Saudi Arabia fall to the deadly virus. And as Captain Charlie McKay leads his strike force of F-15s and B-1 Bombers into the heart of Iraq on a one-in-a-million mission, the fate of the world is hanging in the balance.
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Former President George Bush plays a small but pivotal role in this latest military/techno-thriller from Chris Stewart, a major in the U.S. Air Force whose flying expertise gave his debut thriller, Shattered Bone, a fresh blast of credibility and verisimilitude. Onboard Air Force One for an important ambassadorial mission, Bush is killed in the book's first few pages by a biological agent released into the air by Iraqi terrorists working for Saddam Hussein's even more dangerous son, Odai.
Fearing that Junior is ready to gas the rest of the Washington establishment plus a large number of America's ordinary citizens, the government sends in a crack commando team to make sure the son doesn't rise to the occasion. There's also a boatload of top- secret electronic gadgetry (explained so well that even us techno-dummies can understand how they work), a touching young female spy who goes a long way toward humanising the Iraqi villains and enough in-flight action to satisfy the keenest video-game addicts. --Dick Adler
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Stewart lays out a commando-lean plot with nick-of-time saves and edge-of-your-seat aerial theatrics that pull the reader through to the rewarding conclusion.
Publishers Weekly
Exciting air battles, virus attacks, and heavy duplicity in Iraq, courtesy of second-novelist Stewart
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- PublisherM Evans & Co
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0871318660
- ISBN 13 9780871318664
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages304
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