Posted on 04/23/2013 9:00:33 AM PDT by Iron Munro
KIRKUS REVIEW
It’s Boston under attack in this double-author debut action-thriller, with the Muslim Brotherhood hoping to go one better than al-Qaida.
Although the authors label the protagonists with nearly identical first names, this one’s no roman à clef. Retired special ops colonel David Gibson operates a security company. Christina Marchetti is a political consultant to "I want to be President" Sen. Brian Kerrigan from Massachusetts.
It’s post-Christmas, and there’s a flight from Logan Airport to D.C. Gibson’s mother has a seat, and Marchetti’s eager to load her high-maintenance sister. Then the aircraft is hijacked while it sits at runway’s end.
Gibson and Marchetti meet when security officials question people who have connections to the flight’s passengers. It's then that Marchetti attaches herself to Gibson, since "Woman’s intuition?....You just look like you’d know these kinds of things."
And the fireworks start! Gibson knows people: Fuller, a state police major, who becomes the go-to source for information; and Tony, intelligence wizard. Marchetti knows street cops and politicians. She talks her way through roadblocks and has her senator help dispatch a SEAL team to locate a nonresponsive LNG vessel in Boston Harbor.
The pair survive tunnel explosions—even part of the billion-dollar Big Dig goes bang—and ambushes and escape being labeled murderers as they shoot Brotherhood bad guys. Told in alternating points of view in chapters sometimes shorter than a page, this is a take-no-breath–or-prisoners narrative.
This one suits the big screen. And it has sequel written all over it.
Pub Date: April 16th, 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7653-3289-9
Page count: 336pp Publisher: Forge
Review Posted Online: Jan. 29th, 2013
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15th, 2013
"Terror Red" is a new book by Colonel David Hunt and Christine Hunsinger that hit the book stores April 16, the day after the Boston Bommbings.
It is a novel about a a Muslim Brotherhood attack in Boston, an airplane hijacked at Logan airport, the Big Dig tunnel in Boston blown up, etc.
Colonel Hunt is often seen on FOX News as a military consultant. I heard him in an interrview today say that his new book is a reality based novel patterned on his military experence and knowledge, and his other experiences [He was a security consultant for the FBI and others].
What a twist of fate for a book dealing with a muslim terrorist attack in Boston to have a publication date the day after a real muslim terrorist attack there.
Get this book and while you are at it get this one as well:
http://www.amazon.com/They-Just-Dont-Get-Safety/dp/140009741X/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
The Colonel is also a regular on The Howie Carr (radio) Show (WRKO Boston).
He’s been very insightful on the bombings there and the Benghazi cover up.
Not a big fan of non-fiction.
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