Terminal Vector

by David Alexander

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION When spy satellites detect the existence of a nuclear weapon aboard a hijacked cruise liner, US special forces are activated. And when it's learned that the same terrorist mastermind who escaped the destruction of his secret training camps is behind the new threat, it's clear that only one hard-charging commando unit can meet the challenge. TERRORIST HIJACKING The terror chieftain's plan is to sail the liner into the Med and explode the nuclear weapon, creating a global choke point for US sea power that would have fatal consequences for the future of America and her Western allies. The hundreds of passengers held hostage makes the target a hard one to take down. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED But the objective of the mission is reclaim the cruise ship before the vessel can enter the Med, kill all terrorists aboard, free the surviving hostages, and disarm or destroy the weapon of mass destruction before it explodes -- and sends the world careening disastrously toward a terminal vector.

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First published May 25, 2009

About the author

David Alexander began writing early in life and began writing uncoaxed and spontaneously. His fledgling appearance in print dates to a sonnet published in a New York City daily newspaper when David was in elementary school in Brooklyn. Between then and today, he has written and published in virtually every literary category, including novels, novelettes, short fiction, poetry, essays and film scripts. He received his early education via the New York City public school system. He later attended Columbia University in New York City and Sorbonne University in Paris, France.

In addition to fiction and creative nonfiction, Alexander has written technical papers as a defense analyst for some of the world's most prestigious international defense publications on high-technology combat systems and their strategic and tactical applications. He is as conversant with the global corporate and civilian defense sector as he is with the military side. Few can justly claim the scope and breadth of his knowledge of and familiarity with the international defense community, ranging from weapon systems to global strategic policy.

As an author, Alexander can justly claim to have pulled himself up by his own bootstraps. Never has he benefited from anybody's patronage. There have been no wealthy relatives with connections, no connections by marriage; no favors traded in secret, no hooked-up friends to fast-track his career. Nor has anybody but David Alexander penned the titles published over David Alexander's byline. Alexander is a resident of Brooklyn Heights, where he has lived and written for many years.

Reviews

[Jim Robertson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Far fetched.

A bit too far fetched and lacking credibility I know it was fiction but fiction with some fact based credibility would have been better too much jumping from one crisis to another for me.