PILLARS OF FIRE - Softcover

Steve Shagan

3.09

45 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067168938X ISBN 13: 9780671689384

Publisher: Pocket, 1990

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Tom Lawford, television journalist and CIA agent, vows revenge when an old friend is knifed, but he gets more than he bargained for when his vengeance involves him in a Libyan plot to construct an ICBM and destroy Israel

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From Library Journal:

Shagan's ( Vendetta, LJ 7/86) latest thriller is set in the immediate future and is an all too plausible extrapolation of today's news. Tom Lawford, a successful journalist and deep cover CIA agent, is assigned to help Israeli intelligence locate a missile launch site somewhere in the Libyan desert. His cover story is the investigation of a German company, controlled by aging Nazi rocket pioneers, which is exporting technology to Libya. All indications point to the rockets being used for a nuclear strike against Israel with war heads developed at a Pakistani nuclear research center. The nonstop action, which prevents disaster with seconds to spare, covers several countries and contains a neatly presented, and solved, technical problem. Great escapist reading, despite its terrifying possibility.
- John North, NorCom Enterprises, Toronto
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Threatened by Libya's purchase of nuclear warheads, Israel plots to destroy Libyan launch sites and the neo-Nazi German firm that manufactures the weapons. Shagan "devotes excessive space to a subplot marginal to the novel's resolution. Otherwise, the complex story line is handled well," remarked PW .
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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