From Publishers Weekly
After CIA director Kirk McGarvey and his wife, Katy, barely survive a spectacularly ruthless terrorist attack on an Alaskan cruise ship, McGarvey (last seen in last year's
By Dawn's Early Light) vows to track down and kill the terrorist leader known only as Khalil. This should be a simple CIA assassination (McGarvey's forte), but there's a catch: Khalil may be Prince Abdul Salman, a billionaire playboy member of the Saudi royal family, well connected to the White House and U.S. businesses. Given information pointing to a second 9/11-scale al-Qaeda attack, the U.S. president discounts Saudi complicity in terrorism, including Salman/Khalil; McGarvey resigns and goes after Khalil on his own. Revenge drives Khalil and McGarvey both, and McGarvey's wife also has a reason to want Khalil dead. Hagberg (who also writes as Sean Flannery) makes sure that nothing is as it seems, and McGarvey begins to doubt his own conclusions about Khalil's identity. With just days until the attack, the U.S. is under martial law, Katy is kidnapped and McGarvey faces tough decisions about home and country. As much about vendettas as politics by other means (but with a chilling, well-articulated politico-economic backstory), this is a thrilling page-turner, from its violent beginning to its violent end.
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Review
"David Hagberg writes the most realistic, prophetic thrillers I have ever read. His books should be required reading in Washington."--Stephen Coonts, New York Times bestselling author of Liberty on Soldier of God
“Few people have the iron clad grip on the world of terrorism as David Hagberg . . .
Soldier of God ought to be required reading for every citizen . . . This is a novel of today, but might well be reality tomorrow.”--Walter J. Boyne,
New York Times bestselling author of
Trophy for Eagles
“
Soldier of God is a book you can’t stop reading because it’s so well written, and because you feel you’re reading tomorrow’s headlines in the war on terrorism.”—Thomas Fleming,
New York Times bestselling author of
Dreams of Glory
“A real thriller—all too real and possible. Fast-paced and genuinely scary.”—Barbara D’Amato, Edgar Award-winning author of
Death of a Thousand Cuts on
Soldier of God
(20050415)
David Hagberg writes the most realistic, prophetic thrillers I have ever read. His books should be required reading in Washington. (Stephen Coonts
New York Times bestselling author of Liberty 20050415)
Soldier of God ought to be required reading for every citizen....A novel of today, but might well be reality tomorrow. (Walter J. Boyne
New York Times bestselling author of Dawn Over Kitty Hawk )
A book you can't stop reading because it's so well written.... You feel you're reading tomorrow's headlines (Thomas Fleming
New York Times bestselling author of Dreams of Glory )
A real thriller-all too real and possible. Fast-paced and genuinely scary. (Barbara D'Amato
Edgar Award--winning author of Death of a Thousand Cuts )