Author: Dominique Lapierre
Larry Collins/
Publisher: Full Circle
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 307
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8176211575
Description
The clock is ticking towards an inflexible deadline..
Three years after September 11, 2001, terrorists have hidden an atomic bomb in the heart of New York.
If the President of the United States does not force his Israeli allies to abandon all the land they have occupied in the aftermath of the 1967 war, New York will be wiped off the face of the earth.
Will he give in this blackmail? Could a terrorist group have really gotten access to an atomic bomb and smuggled it into the United States? Can the forces of the most powerful nation on the planet find the hidden bomb, and defuse it before it can explode? Could they, if necessar6y, evacuate New York?
Two years of research; an impressive number of documents studied; scores of people interviewed in some of the most secret centers in the war on terrorism, across the United States, Israel, Europe and India.
Is New York Burnign?
A diabolic thriller, a novel of extraordinary force, set in the heart of today's world and its madness.
PRAISE FOR Is New York Burning?
The great return of the Lapierre and Collins duo with a new bestseller, based on a staggering research. A great piece of fiction more real than reality.
- Paris Match, France
A showdown from the headlines between democracy and terrorism . . A novel written at a breathtaking pace, a thriller to give you chills.
- Le Point, France
A superb novel of political fiction.
- Le Figaro
A book full of scoops and revelations which will leave the reader speechless.
- Valeurs Actuelles
A hair raising thriller which is already rocketing to No 1 on all best-selling lists.
- Panorama, Italy
Lapierre and Collins magic go is warning the world on the dangers of escalating terrorism.
- Famiglia Cristiana
A page turner no reader will put down until the final surprise of the last page.
- Corriere Della Sera , Italy
Lapierre and Collins' ultimate prophecy: a hair-raising novel of political fiction and suspense.
- El Pais, Spain
The famous literary duo, Lapierre and Collins, have joined again to write a appassionato novel where they recreate the possibility of a new terrorist attack against the City of the Skyscrapers. A sure bestseller.
- El Mundo, Spain
A new tour de force by the authors of O Jerusalem, 294 pages of incredible suspense in the heart of today's world.
- ABC, Spain
Contents
CHAPTER 1
Early Spring, 2003
CHAPTER 2
Some Time Later
CHAPTER 3
A Container of Basmati Rice
CHAPTER 4
A Message From The Warriors of the Jihad
CHAPTER 5
The Crisis, Day One
CHAPTER 6
The Crisis, Day Two
CHAPTER 7
The Crisis, Day Three
CHAPTER 8
The Crisis, Day Four
Post Script
Acknowledgments