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The Devil's Halo
As a contract agent of the CIA Cafe, the agency's black-bud-get Contract Agents for Economics, Terry Weston has played a clandestine game of espionage against the spy services of Europe in which nobody usually gets badly hurt. But the game becomes deadly for Terry, his wife Maria and their six-year-old daughter when old allies turn into bitter enemies.
The Europe where Americans once vacationed is fading from memory. Germany is bankrupt, NATO dissolved. A supersized Greater European Union, led by France and Russia, engages in political brinkmanship with American power.
The new leaders of Europe are obsessed with 'the American problem', that Europe still plays a global No. 2 to the U.S. Even in space, the new frontier, the pentagon plans to deploy a Space Shield that will give the U.S. military this high ground. But the DGSE spy service has developed a technology solution. Elegant. Mathematical. Devastating. It will make Europe No. 1 in space, and reduce the U.S. military to a fighting force that will have to fight with its fists.
Only Terry and Maria have the skill technical know-how to penetrate deep into enemy territory to prevent a stunningly cynical act of sabotage from ending America's days as a superpower. But old friends and even family members can no longer be trusted, as the two great rivals of the 21st century head for a conflict as inevitable as tomorrow's headlines.
The Europe where Americans once vacationed is fading from memory. Germany is bankrupt, NATO dissolved. A supersized Greater European Union, led by France and Russia, engages in political brinkmanship with American power.
The new leaders of Europe are obsessed with 'the American problem', that Europe still plays a global No. 2 to the U.S. Even in space, the new frontier, the pentagon plans to deploy a Space Shield that will give the U.S. military this high ground. But the DGSE spy service has developed a technology solution. Elegant. Mathematical. Devastating. It will make Europe No. 1 in space, and reduce the U.S. military to a fighting force that will have to fight with its fists.
Only Terry and Maria have the skill technical know-how to penetrate deep into enemy territory to prevent a stunningly cynical act of sabotage from ending America's days as a superpower. But old friends and even family members can no longer be trusted, as the two great rivals of the 21st century head for a conflict as inevitable as tomorrow's headlines.
- GenresThriller
471 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
9 people want to read
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Chris Fox
2 booksLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Chris Fox was partner in a New York strategy consulting company. He worked around the world with clients such as Citicorp, JVC, and Heineken, then decided to become a fiction writer. To combat writer's block, he sometimes dogfights in a World War II era USAF Trainer and takes his NSX onto the skidpad at various racetracks.
Chris Fox was partner in a New York strategy consulting company. He worked around the world with clients such as Citicorp, JVC, and Heineken, then decided to become a fiction writer. To combat writer's block, he sometimes dogfights in a World War II era USAF Trainer and takes his NSX onto the skidpad at various racetracks.
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March 5, 2021
Exciting, spy chasing, Europe bashing America, destroying GPS satellites in space. Could you imagine living without GPS and all its uses especially those used by the Armed Forces around the world.
July 31, 2010
Spy thriller novelists used to have it easy. The Cold War presented an enemy that could easily be portrayed as Evil with a capital “e”, that had a level of state secrecy that allowed them to make up what they wanted without directly contradicting known fact, and that had definable borders, as opposed to the amorphous blob of international terrorism.
Nowadays, that’s all been shot to hell. Who are the bad guys? China’s bad, but of course nobody wants to hear that. North Korea might as well be Pluto for all that we care about it, and Iran, while a nice choice, has really been done to death. Chris Fox sidesteps this dilemma by rooting out the real global bad guys: the Europeans.
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Nowadays, that’s all been shot to hell. Who are the bad guys? China’s bad, but of course nobody wants to hear that. North Korea might as well be Pluto for all that we care about it, and Iran, while a nice choice, has really been done to death. Chris Fox sidesteps this dilemma by rooting out the real global bad guys: the Europeans.
More: http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thril...
February 3, 2020
Germany no longer the leader of the European Union while France forge a new Greater Europa Union(GEU)with Russia to counterweight against the United State the only superpower left. The battle in the future is not on conventional battle but of the space warfare type. The next battle will be fought among the satellites.
This is the background of this story as France with the help of Russia try to usurp the GPS satellites of the United State as struggle for space supremacy take shapes. Industrial counterespionage expert Terry Weston and his beautiful wife Maria are the only persons who are capable to unravel this scheme and must do so before it is too late as they travel first to Moscow then on to Paris as they race against time to stop this catastrophic war.
This is the background of this story as France with the help of Russia try to usurp the GPS satellites of the United State as struggle for space supremacy take shapes. Industrial counterespionage expert Terry Weston and his beautiful wife Maria are the only persons who are capable to unravel this scheme and must do so before it is too late as they travel first to Moscow then on to Paris as they race against time to stop this catastrophic war.
April 2, 2010
Excellent read. Everybody today takes so much for granted. Imagine how it would be if the theme of this book became reality. A frighteningly, exciting read.
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