Red Sea: A Novel - Hardcover

Benedek, Emily

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312354916 ISBN 13: 9780312354916

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2007

Synopsis

Four airliners are blown out of the sky---a devastating string of attacks taking hundreds of lives and striking fear into people and governments around the globe. Marie Peterssen, an ambitious young aviation reporter, has a hunch about the crashes, and her suspicions are confirmed when she’s approached by Julian Granot, an Israeli airline security expert and former Special Forces commando who has noticed her work.

Julian offers Marie a rare lead, one that will send her to London and later into the devastation of war-torn Iraq.  With the help of a maverick FBI agent, Morgan Ensley, Marie stumbles onto the makings of a terrorist plot well beyond the destruction of airliners: the detonation of a rogue nuclear device in New York Harbor. The terrorists know that America’s most vulnerable spot is its transportation system, and they mean to exploit it. Time is short.

But Marie is in the grip of circumstances beyond her control. Julian’s intentions are unclear: Is he helping a journalist uncover answers the world craves, or is he setting up the girl to flush out an Islamic terrorist who killed Julian’s partner twenty years earlier?

Julian holds the key, but Marie’s role in the frantic race to unravel the plot grows when she learns that she may be tied to the terrorist leader in a more personal way. 

Author Emily Benedek was writing an article on counterterrorism for Newsweek when she came into contact with a high-level Israeli counterterrorism expert.  Due to his ongoing role in international investigations, much of what she learned in the course of their talks could only be told in a novel.  What emerges from those meetings is a bone-chilling story of suspense, as thrilling as it is plausible.

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From the Back Cover

THREE PEOPLE DETERMINED TO STOP A DIABOLICAL ATTACK.

TWO WEEKS UNTIL DISASTER STRIKES.

ONE HEART-POUNDING MISSION...

Four airplanes are blown out of the sky...hundreds of civilians are dead, and the world is gripped by fear. As young American reporter Marie Peterssen investigates the attacks, she meets Julian Granot, a mysterious Israeli operative who offers her an enticing lead—one that points them to maverick FBI agent Morgan Ensley and the ravages of war-torn Iraq.

“Cagily realistic.”—Library Journal (starred review)

 Soon Marie, Julian, and Morgan discover a connection between the crashes and a devastating plot to detonate a nuclear bomb in a New York City port—and time is running out. As Marie races to stop a sophisticated network of terrorists, she stumbles upon a shocking revelation: she may have a deep personal connection to the Islamic mastermind behind the attacks. Now she will stop at nothing to uncover the truth.  But it could cost Marie and her team the mission...and their lives.

“Benedek is a tremendous young talent.” —Stephen Coonts

About the Author

Emily Benedek’s writing has appeared in Newsweek, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times.  She spent a year following an FBI special agent and SWAT team operator and wrote about an American F15-C fighter pilot who flew in Operation Shock and Awe. Red Sea is her first novel.

Edition details

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0312354916
• ISBN 13: 9780312354916
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384