I think Amazon promoted this author based on previous
searches on their site.
Jack Hatfield was a conservative talk show host on GNT, the
major cable news network. The mainstream media went after him and his show by
branding him as a bigoted racist for his views on Muslim extremists. He’s stayed
in the game by working as a freelance producer with Max (Maxine) his favored
videographer.
Jack’s on a routine ride-along with the SF police when they
get a call about a carjacking that went south with the car crashing within a
block of the heist. The carjacker has been whisked away by the cops awfully
fast. The original driver has disappeared.
The area has been evacuated because the random carjacking grabbed
a car carrying a bomb big enough to take out a couple city blocks. And the
driver was ID’d as being from the middle east. When the bomb squad approaches,
the driver, now on the top floor of a nearby building, hits send on his cell
phone and detonates the bomb killing the squad’s chief.
The FBI comes in and after a day or two, announces a
domestic group from northern California is behind the bombing. The kid carjacker
dies of an OD the next day and Jack’s favorite hacker digs up a connection to a
London-based Iman so Jack figures that he needs to go to London to further the
investigation.
The story takes Jack to Israel to London to Paris as he
narrows his focus to an under the radar but very well funded group called the
Hand of Allah. Putting pieces of the puzzle together, Jack figures out the
target and races back to SF to try and stop what could make 9/11 look like a
practice run.
When I went looking for a .jpg of the cover, I quickly
learned why the author’s name seemed familiar. He does a syndicated radio show
that is 3rd in listenership (to Limbaugh and someone else). I tend
to stay away from books written by pundits and have read nothing by Hannity, Beck,
Levin, or anyone of that ilk. I think had I known this ahead of time, I might
have passed because I think they put too much of themselves and their biases
into the story. In this book, the shadowy group pulling the strings is a
Bilderberg-type of power brokers who slip any connections with the plot, but
each manage to start to fall one way or another. All because of crusading
former conservative talk show host. I wasn’t impressed.
East Coast Don
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