Flash Point

James W. Huston

ISBN 10: 1441735763 ISBN 13: 9781441735768

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2010

Synopsis

Lieutenant Sean Woods doesn't tell anyone when Tony Vialli, his roommate, best friend, and fellow F-14 pilot, submits false leave papers and sneaks off to Israel to rendezvous with his new Israeli girlfriend. But when Vialli and the woman are assassinated in a brutal terrorist attack, Woods is shattered by the loss and now wants revenge on the man he knows is responsible Sheikh al-Jabar, the self-appointed defender of Islam. Taking matters into his own hands, Woods secretly signs on with an elite Israeli strike group. As the confrontation escalates and tempers flare on both sides, Woods finds himself caught up in a web of international intrigue and deception that stretches from the Middle East to Washington and finally unravels in an explosive showdown with Islamic assassins in the Iranian mountains.

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About the Author

JAMES W. HUSTON is the New York Times best-selling author of six thrillers, including Balance of Power and Secret Justice. A graduate of Top Gun, he served as a Naval flight officer in F-14s on the USS Nimitz with the Jolly Rogers. He is currently a trial lawyer for the international law firm of Morrison Foerster and has been involved in numerous high-profile cases. He lives in San Diego, California.

From Kirkus Reviews

Huston's third military thriller is also his best as it examines the cost of another hypothetical American reprisal against terrorism, this time with a supersonic fighter-jet pursuit of a bin Laden stand-in to his secret desert fortress.In what is probably the only thriller series based on a passage of the U.S. Constitution, Huston, a former Navy F-14 flyboy now practicing law, typically has some plucky legal type--here it's a Navy JAG officer aboard an aircraft carrier off the Israeli coast--discover Article 1, Section 8, which gives Congress the legal clout to determine how force should be applied when American interests are threatened abroad. Huston used Section 8 both in his excellent debut (Balance of Power, 1998) and its much less powerful sequel (The Price of Power, 1999); now he employs it to have Congress declare war on a single person, Sheik al-Jabar, who has apparently revived an 11th-century Islamic sect of assassins to commit mayhem against Israel and the U.S. When one of al-Jabar's attacks against Israel kills a Navy pilot seeking quality time with the beautiful Israeli mystery woman he wants to marry, the pilot's best buddy, Lieutenant Sean Woods, whose father died in a terrorist attack, wants revenge. After discussing his feelings with the carrier's JAG officer, and getting some tips about St. Aquinas's definition of a just war from the ship's chaplain, Woods writes his congressman and, miraculously, gets results. Of course, killing al-Jabar, who hides in ancient fortresses protected by Syria and Iran, will not be easy. While Woods flies spectacular aerial dogfights over Lebanon and Iran, Sami al-Hadad, the NSA's top Arab intelligence analyst, finds evidence that Israel may be using al-Jabar to force the U.S. to declare a war that can't be won. A thinking man's military thriller, with superb action, crackling hardware-speak, and just enough tragedy to emphasize the emotional price for so much gung-ho American heroism. -- Copyright © 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1441735763
• ISBN 13: 9781441735768
• Binding: Audio CD
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 17