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Nightwatch
On an isolated highway in the Crimea, en route to a top secret summit, the President of the United States and those assigned to protect him are brutally slain by heavily armed assailants. On a rushing whitewater river in the Missouri Ozarks, a jet-black Huey helicopter rains death upon the traveling party of the U.S. Vice President-and only the quick, decisive actions fo Special Agent Vince Kellogg of the Secret Service save the V.P. from sharing their Commander-In-Chief's grim fate. Suddenly liberty and democracy are under siege, threatened by the spreading fires of a terrifying new American Revolution ignited from within the nation's own sacrosanct halls of power. And on Nightwatch-a specially designed 747 flying high above the Earth and the new seat of an uncertain U.S. government-Commander Brittany Cooper realizes that, if the country she serves is to exist after tomorrow, she must be willing to take the most drastic and dangerous measures necessary, as she stands in the eye of a firestorm of treason, nuclear terror, and death.
336 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 1999
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February 20, 2009
By the author of Crimson Tide, and it shows. Similar conflicts.
He got the airplane 90% right. He got the crew compliment and dynamic 70% right. As a 5 year vetran of Nightwatch I read it for the airplane. But it was a good story and anyone who enjoyed Crimson Tide would probably enjoy this one. I did get pulled into the tension. Lots of build up with a rather quick and easy climax, or so I thought. The movie rights have already been sold and it could make a really good movie.
He got the airplane 90% right. He got the crew compliment and dynamic 70% right. As a 5 year vetran of Nightwatch I read it for the airplane. But it was a good story and anyone who enjoyed Crimson Tide would probably enjoy this one. I did get pulled into the tension. Lots of build up with a rather quick and easy climax, or so I thought. The movie rights have already been sold and it could make a really good movie.
March 17, 2015
Exciting plot from a St. Louis writer, including some Missouri locations as scenes. I've actually visited an underground ICBM control room in Missouri, and I remember that years ago I viewed a play on TV about a commander and deputy commander in such a silo trying to decide whether or not to launch. That scene was not specifically in this story, but its naval analog was.
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