Pillars of Fire - Hardcover

Shagan, Steve

3.09

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ISBN 10: 0671689398 ISBN 13: 9780671689391

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1989

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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--a Libyan plot to construct an ICBM and destroy Israel

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From Publishers Weekly:

Author of a half-dozen previous adventure novels, Shagan develops this fast-moving techno-thriller around the "Muslim bomb." The year is 1992. Pakistan is manufacturing nuclear warheads for supply to Libya, whose targets are Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The rockets are being made by a German firm shielding neo-Nazi scientists. The Israeli task is to destroy both the Libyan launch sites and the Pakistani nuclear facility without triggering a world war. But their plans depend on a deep-cover CIA agent, journalist Tom Lawford, who is facing a crisis of conscience. The key of the work is Shagan's insistence that a continuum exists between the Holocaust and current Islamic hostility to Israel. In developing this point, however, he devotes excessive space to a subplot marginal to the novel's resolution. Otherwise, the complex story line is handled well, the denouement making clever use of contemporary technologies--including one aircraft just canceled by the U.S. Characterization of Israel as a warfare state by necessity adds a chilling dimension to a provocative story. $100,000 ad/promo; author tour.
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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
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