- Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: St Martin's Press; Reprint edition (26 Jan 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312937555
- ISBN-13: 978-0312937553
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,499,546 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Edge-of-seat quotient: High."
--"Entertainment Weekly" "Action-packed an ingenious plot."
--"Denver Post"
"The author jacks up the adrenaline."
--"People"
"[An] explosive climax."
--"San Francisco Chronicle" "The drama [is] so harrowing you'll be looking for a life vest before the last wave drenches you . [A] smashing maritime adventure." --"Mystery Scene"
"Stabenow's descriptions of the ensuing duel at sea make for edge-of-seat stuff .And the creepy, authentic-sounding terrorist scenario will make readers sit up and take notice of a state that some Americans forget is actually there." --"Booklist"
"[E]xcellent."--"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)
""BLINDFOLD GAME", like its predecessors, can be read on two levels--as a cleverly-executed thriller with an intriguing protagonist or as a fascinating exploration of an exotic society with its own unique culture. Either way, you can't lose."--"San Diego""""Union""-Tribune"
--"Entertainment Weekly" "Action-packed an ingenious plot."
--"Denver Post"
"The author jacks up the adrenaline."
--"People"
"[An] explosive climax."
--"San Francisco Chronicle" "The drama [is] so harrowing you'll be looking for a life vest before the last wave drenches you . [A] smashing maritime adventure." --"Mystery Scene"
"Stabenow's descriptions of the ensuing duel at sea make for edge-of-seat stuff .And the creepy, authentic-sounding terrorist scenario will make readers sit up and take notice of a state that some Americans forget is actually there." --"Booklist"
"[E]xcellent."--"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)
""BLINDFOLD GAME", like its predecessors, can be read on two levels--as a cleverly-executed thriller with an intriguing protagonist or as a fascinating exploration of an exotic society with its own unique culture. Either way, you can't lose."--"San Diego""""Union""-Tribune"
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In Thailand, a bomb destroys a tourist spot while two North Korean terrorists casually walk away from the site to plan the next phase of their plot against the United States. In Washington, CIA analyst Hugh Rincon catches the chatter about something big being planned along the Pacific rim, and his best agent says its linked to the Thailand blast. Now Hugh is beginning to connect the dots between missing radioactive material, a SCUD missile sold on the black market, and a Russian ship sailing toward the Alaskan coast...but the Administration refuses to heed his warning. In the Bering Sea, Coast Guard cutter Sojourner Truth is on routine patrol. On board is Hugh's estranged wife, executive officer Sara Lange. Sara and her ship are Hugh's only hope for stopping the terrorists...if she's willing to believe her ex-husband's story and risk her own career - and her crew's lives - to hunt down a death ship...
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Format:Hardcover
A terrorist bombing in Pattaya Beach, Thailand, in October, 2004, is the prelude to this dramatic and exciting sea chase, as Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander Sara Lange becomes engaged in much more dangerous activity than patrolling the Maritime Boundary Line between the US and the Russia. Two brothers, known only as Smith and Jones, from Korea, have joined a Singaporean pirate named Mr. Noortman, and a Chinese pirate named Fang and have bombed Pattaya Beach as a dress rehearsal for bigger destruction. They have succeeded in obtaining cesium-137, usually used for radiation treatments in hospitals, and they plan to make a "dirty bomb" from it, firing it into Anchorage, Alaska, with its population of 240,000 people.
Lt. Cmdr. Sara Lange is married to Hugh Rincon, a high-ranking official in the CIA, though their separate careers keep them apart for most of the year. Sara is dealing with Russian incursions into US waters, a Greenpeace vessel which plans, on its own, to drive the Russians from the fishing sanctuary, and a mounting storm which soon results in twenty-foot seas, when she learns from Hugh that a major terrorist attack is planned on Alaska. A "dirty bomb" is believed to be aboard an unknown ship near her in the Bering Sea. As the narrative alternates between the Sojourner Truth, to which Sara is assigned, and the vessel in which the four terrorists and their small army are hiding, a dramatic chess game unfolds, just as the fierce winter storm develops to hurricane force.
Author Dana Stabenow, who spent sixteen days aboard a Coast Guard cutter in the Bering Sea collecting information, fills this novel with details about Coast Guard life, giving it a verisimilitude which makes the action, behavior of the crew, and the dialogue come alive. Her insights into the problems of piracy, illegal arms sales, the impossibility of checking every container on every ship, the disregard of the Maritime Boundary Line by Russian fishing trawlers, and the complications created by well-meaning groups such as Greenpeace, give depth and high drama to the action as it unfolds.
With broader characterization than one usually finds in an action thriller, the novel also provides personal information about Sara Lange, Hugh Rincon, their friend Kyle Chase of the FBI and his wife and children, and the terrorists themselves, personalizing terrorism and the fight against it by various forces within the US government. Filled with excitement as the storm, the terrorists, and the Coast Guard all come together, the novel provides much to ponder about our vulnerability to increasingly militant terrorist cells. Mary Whipple
Format:Hardcover
I was recommended this book by a friend and was not disappointed. The action goes from the far east to the USA, Alaska and ends up on board a USA Coastguard's boat. It is very well written and researched and the action wherever it takes place is thrilling. The awful part about it is that it all very feasible and deals with terrorists. A very good read.
Format:Paperback
Very enjoyable and tense action thriller about terrorists and the US coast guard. The author has obviously really done her homework about international shipping and the coast guard as there is a wealth of detail. Grabs you right away from the first page.
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