East Wind

by Jack Winnick

When a violent explosion rocks Los Angeles, killing thousands and leveling an entire beachfront community, the news reports that a nuclear device was involved. The president moves fast to prevent panic across the nation. The government receives an ominous threat from an anonymous Middle Eastern source: similar attacks will be launched upon other American cities unless all aid to Israel is terminated, virtually isolating the Jewish State and allowing its Arab neighbors to overrun it. The FBI, CIA and other federal organizations are called to action. A crack U. S. Israeli team is given the daunting assignment of uncovering the source of the threat and the identity of the next targeted city against a five day deadline. The team: Lara, a young female FBI computer whiz and Uri, a charismatic male Mossad field agent. Theirs is a breakneck chase across the country in a race against time and the unknown Islamist terrorists.

260 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Jack Winnick was born in Chicago, went to college at the Universities of Illinois and Oklahoma, and received a PhD in Chemical Engineering. He went on to become a Professor at Georgia Tech for over 20 years, teaching as well at The University of California, Berkeley,and UCLA. He has also worked as an 'Expert' in the field of Manned Spacecraft at NASA and as consultant in the oil refining, aerospace, nuclear and power industries. He is the author of an internationally-used text on Thermodynamics and holds several patents in the field of Electrochemical Engineering.

After a lifetime of scholarship on Middle East affairs, he has published numerous editorials on Middle East policy in widely-read media including two for "The Hill." Winnick has traveled to the Middle East as Project Director for a United States government program to improve interactive technology with Arab countries.

His first novel, "East Wind" (Fireside Publications, 2010), was followed by a sequel, "Devil Among Us," (2013), and "Devil in False Colors" (2016).

Reviews

[Lesign · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fast-paced international thriller. Thought-provoking with credible scenarios about how terrorists might smuggle nuclear devices into the United States. This would make a great movie.

[Foxglove · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm not sure how to rate this book, so I won't. It could have used some work, but it was entertaining.