Target America: A
Sniper Elite Novel
Scott McEwen, with
Thomas Koloniar
S&S/Touchstone,
Jun 3 2014, $19.99
ISBN 9781476747194
Chechen prisoner Alik Zakayev is released from in Guantanamo after being falsely accused by the Russians as participating
in the Boston marathon bombings. Sent
home, the Salafi Muslim realizes he is a dead man if he stays in Grozny so he
joins the Riyad us-Saliheyn Martyrs’ Brigade. A few weeks later in a tunnel between
Chihuahua State and New Mexico, Zakayev smuggles a Russian RA-115 suitcase nuke
when American law enforcement intervenes.
He triggers the bomb believing Allah will welcome him and knowing compatriot
Kashkin made it to the States with his RA-115.
CIA’s Special Activities Division Bob Pope
also is aware of another loose nuke inside America. He assigns reactivated Navy SEAL Gil Shannon
to find and eliminate the threat. Gil
brings back SEAL Team Six Black to prevent a disaster worse than 9/11. At the same time in Montana, a terrorist targets
Gil’s wife and mother-in-law.
The second Sniper Elite military thriller (see: One-Way Trip) is an exciting action-packed tale from the
opening suicide scene in Guantanamo and never slowing down until the final confrontation. The DC crowd comes across as wussy political
caricatures ready to send someone else to die while soiling their underwear far
from the combat. Still filled with
realistic blood and gore, readers will feel a constant adrenalin rush as
Shannon and his unit try to prevent the second nuke from being deployed.
Harriet Klausner
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