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Sto caricando le informazioni... Hell for the Holidaysdi Chris Grabenstein
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Christopher is back! On the case investigating home grown terrorist white supremacists that are planning something big. His boss won't believe him or help him but he connects with Special Agent Andrew Jackson who is helping put together seemingly unrelated murders that cross with Chris's investigation into kidnapping and US Customs. Gathering information they find dead bodies as the brotherhood is eliminating people in their cells. After performance they are taken out by the next person. Chris follows leads and finally comes face to face with the terrorist group on a jam packed Thanksgiving weekend. Trying to focus on his job, the suspects, and preventing a catastrophe he has to balance his job along with his family who is in harm's way. His precious daughter is still having nightmares from last Christmas's horror and Chris has to decide if he's still going to be in the FBI or take care of his family ( ) FBI agent Christopher Miller is dealing with his daughter's psychological "anniversary reaction" to her frightful experience with a gun-toting Santa impersonator in the previous installment of this series. (This is the second book in the series, not the first as another reviewer stated.) Now a white supremist brotherhood of neo-Nazi skinheads and redneck bigots, headed by an ultra-right-wing minister -- which seems to be using Al Quaida's organizational methods -- has gotten hold of a rocket launcher just in time for Thanksgiving. It's sure to mean hell for another holiday season. Unfortunately, Miller's superiors are so fixated on Islamic terrorist threats that these American right-wing terrorists don't register as a major concern. This didn't quite work for me. I like the protagonist and his family, and there were lots of twists and turns and double-crosses, but there was something in the writing style that fell flat. Odd, since I love Grabenstein's John Ceepak series. This one reminded me of James Patterson's style -- I think Grabenstein has worked with him recently, so maybe Patterson's writing characteristics are rubbing off and ruining a previously good author. It was a quick read, though. Even at almost 400 pages, the chapters were very short, so there was lots of white space on pages along the way. It was perfect for my current attention span. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Christopher Miller is up against a group of domestic terrorists who are copying Al Qaeda's tactics: operating in cells, following a twisted fundamentalist doctrine, targeting "public amusements." A White Supremacist hate group has smuggled in a stinger missile and recruited an army marksman a nightmare vision of a new and more talented Timothy McVeigh. Their initial plan is to bring down an airliner as it takes off from JFK airport. When Miller warns authorities about this group and its plans, no one listens because the FBI's focus has shifted to foreign terrorists, and his home, Jersey City, has the second largest population of Arabs/Muslims in America. "Saint Chris" comes up against the same sort of bureaucratic resistance encountered by the FBI agents who, pre-9/11, wrote memos about Arab Terrorists Flying Airplanes that no one paid attention to. The White Wolves have chosen Thanksgiving as the day to strike, since they feel the holiday commemorates God giving of this country to his chosen people: the white man. Meanwhile, on the home front, Miller has to cope with his daughter's post traumatic stress as the anniversary of her Christmas nightmare draws near and he will be torn between taking care of her and saving thousands of innocent lives! Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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