Desert Fire

by David Hagberg

Bestselling award-winning author, David Hagberg, returns with the most explosive global thriller since The Sum of All Fears and the most terrifing assassin since Frederick Forsythe's "Jackal." He is none other than Joseph Assad Sherif, Saddam Hussein's most accomplished killer and the world's foremost expert in the art of massacre. His victims include the 1972 Israeli Olympic athletes, the 20,000 slaughtered citizens of Hamma, Syria and Ali Nasir's entire South Yemen cabinet. Now Saddam is about to procure a 1200-megawatt neutron source reactor, which will guarantee Saddam unlimited bomb-grade plutonium. Those blocking the sale are to be eliminated by Sherif and his beautiful but murderous daughter, Leila. Sherif, a brutal sexual Psychopath, has also left a bloody trail of blonde Frauleins in his wake. The West's finest criminal investigator is on his case and is soon pursuing him across Germany. But when he corners him in Germany's biggest nuclear power plant, which Sherif plans to blow to pieces, the hunter will become the hunted - and Desert Fire will soar to its spectacalarly violent climax.

Genres: Fiction

Paperback

First published July 1, 1993

About the author

aka David Bannerman, Sean Flannery, David James, Robert Pell, Eric Ramsey

David Hagberg is a former Air Force cryptographer who has traveled extensively in Europe, the Arctic, and the Caribbean and has spoken at CIA functions. He has published more than twenty novels of suspense, including the bestselling High Flight, Assassin, and Joshua's Hammer.

http://us.macmillan.com/author/davidh...

Reviews

[Kadin · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit of historical fiction that I'm sure would've checked all the boxes when it was published in 1993: The Gulf War, illusions to the Cold War, assassination, nuclear terrorism, and you can hardly making a plot less interesting by throwing a Nazi in the mix. There's mystery and intrigue, both domestic and international, and there's some fast-paced, high stakes drama, especially at the end. My main issues were I didn't find the main characters all that interesting, the love interest storyline fell flat, and there were moments where the story moved pretty along pretty slowly.

[Chris Klitzing · Rating 4 out of 5]

Took such a long time actually over half the book to get the full extent of the plot and I laboured along then bingo I could not put it down Marked down due to slow start
I must admit I had many family obligations which also contributed to the time to read as I usually read books in a week or less 😊😊
But good book and worth a read

[Foisal · Rating 2 out of 5]

Really slow and boring

for most of the novel, i simple tried not to give up before reaching the end. But at the end i failed to achieve that.

I had to skip couple of chapters at the end and read the last chapter to finish it.

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

very slow to start. Stay away from older Hagberg that is not bill lane, or Kirk mcgarvy

[Dan Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wild Story taking place in Germany. Rogue cop chosen to solve a delicate international murder. Uses unorthodox methods but gets the job done.