Z: A Dave Riley Novel - Couverture rigide

Mayer, Bob

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0891415106 ISBN 13 : 9780891415107

Editeur : Presidio Pr, 1997

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Another great military thriller from NY Times Best-Selling Author Bob Mayer. Reference Mayer’s Thrillers “Mayer had me hooked from the very first page.” Stephen Coonts “Exciting and authentic. Don’t miss this one!” W.E.B. Griffen “Fascinating, imaginative and nerve-wracking.” Kirkus Reviews “A pulsing technothriller. A nailbiter in the best tradition of adventure fiction.” Publishers Weekly. From Kirkus Reviews Although retired from the US Army, Dave Riley is not out of the action as he battles crafty villains and a deadly pestilence in southwestern Africa in this sixth installment of Mayer's absorbing and well-written series (Cut-Out, 1995, etc.). Now a civilian security specialist hired to protect Satellite News Network correspondent Conner Young, the ex-Special Forces warrant officer accompanies his comely charge to Angola, where she's covering a multinational mission to end the civil strife that's racked the onetime Portuguese colony since it gained independence in 1975. After overrunning rebel strongholds and establishing a base camp along the Zairean border, the Green Berets in the UN's vanguard are stopped cold by the outbreak of a virulent plague. Quarantined with Conner and a handful of soldiers who have also been exposed to whatever's in the air, Dave apprehensively follows the unavailing attempts of epidemiologists who have been flown in from the States to deal with the highly contagious disease they refer to as ``Z.'' Released from hot-zone confinement to escort the medical team on a fact-finding mission, he helps determine that man, not nature, has unleashed the lethal virus. With an assist from the National Security Agency, American commanders soon identify the likely culprit as Pieter Van Wyks, head of the syndicate that effectively controls the world's diamond trade. Aware that the avaricious mining magnate has stockpiled vaccine that can reverse the invariably fatal course of Z, the Pentagon details Dave to lead a small band of nothing-left-to-lose troopers in an airborne assault on the cartel's strongly defended headquarters on the Namibian coast. Though on his last legs and facing die-hard adversaries, the old soldier will manage to beat the odds. A ripping good biotech/military thriller that plausibly depicts the high costs (psychological and otherwise) of combating unseen enemies. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. This military action thriller set in the war-torn jungles of Africa, finds SF veteran Riley on the most dangerous mission of his life. The Green Beret Series Eyes of the Hammer Dragon Sim-13 Synbat Cut Out Eternity Base Z

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Assigned to escort SNN’s ace reporter Conner Young, who’s accompanying a US Army Special Forces A-team as part of the UN’s peacekeeping mission in Angola, former Green Beret Dave Riley finds himself undertaking his most dangerous and thrilling mission yet. In the war-torn jungles of Africa, the team becomes infected with a terrible disease known as ‘Z’, which kills within days and is now on the verge of an uncontrollable outbreak. The shocking truth about the virus points to a mysterious diamond cartel based on the Namibian coast. In a desperate race against time, Riley and the assault team must secure the only antidote before it is destroyed.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Presidio Pr
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0891415106
• ISBN 13: 9780891415107
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 269
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible