By Richard A. Clarke
Fiction can frequently inform the reality higher than nonfiction. and there's a lot of fact that should learn. -Richard A. Clarke From the famous counterterrorism professional and number one bestselling writer comes an wonderful fiction debut-a novel of terrorism, warring countries, and political treachery... which could take place the next day to come. for 3 a long time, Richard A. Clarke labored within the White apartment, country division, and Pentagon. As adviser to 4 presidents, he traveled in the course of the heart East, traveling palaces, army bases, and intelligence facilities, assembly rulers, squaddies, and spies. a few of what he stumbled on seemed in opposed to All Enemies. even more of it seems that the following. In a unprecedented geopolitical mystery jam-packed with the type of state-of-the-art authenticity simply a person at the inside of may convey, Clarke takes readers simply 5 years into the longer term, whilst forces either within the center East and the USA are at paintings to release one other battle. yet this time, it can be larger. This time, it can be nuclear, and unfold to Asia and past. A coup has eventually toppled the sheiks of Saudi Arabia, and positioned a made up our minds yet shaky Islamic executive as an alternative. all over, the odor of oil has all started to draw the scorpions, and between them are males in Washington and one other capital able to strike a devil's cut price to essentially realign the map of the center East. The plans aren't an identical, however-though a number of the planners imagine they're. Hidden agendas, fierce ambition, conflicting loyalties, defective intelligence, catastrophic miscalculation-soon the dominos will begin to fall, and never even the efforts of some committed women and men at the outdoor are able to cease an unstoppable folly. . . . mixing unparalleled realism with complex plotting, razor-sharp suspense, and a striking solid of characters, The Scorpion's Gate should be the most talked-about novels of the yr.
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There are. Lotta balls in the air at the moment. That’s when America needs really good analysis,” Rubenstein said, and then he sat up straight. “Here’s what I suggest you do. Fly over to London. They have smart guys there on this stuff, with good contacts, better than ours, stuff they don’t share through normal liaison channels with CIA. For someone of your rank, they’ll open up. Besides, it’ll give you a chance to buy Sarah something nice on Portobello Road. ” “You are well informed,” Rusty said, rising out of his chair.
General Burns turned off his laser. 39 richard a. clarke “Any questions of General Burns? No? Then thank you all. If I could ask everybody to leave except the principal or acting principal from each agency,” Dr. Caulder said. ” MacIntyre turned from the table and whispered to his analyst, who had been back-benching behind him. After the shuffling had settled down, National Security Advisor Caulder turned to the Secretary of Defense. ” Tall and broad-shouldered, Conrad, dressed in what appeared to be an expensive double-breasted suit, radiated overflowing energy, fidgeting in his seat.
At moments like this, Rusty MacIntyre felt like a one-armed paperhanger. He and Rubenstein had tried and succeeded in keeping the IAC small; that way they avoided the bloat that had made the CIA so ineffective. But small also meant that Rusty usually ended up doing everything from editing reports to arguing with OMB and the Congress for more money, to hanging out and eating pizza late at night with young analysts. It also meant he hardly ever got to see his wife. After ten years they still hadn’t gotten around to having a kid and now—with Sarah at thirty-eight—it was almost too late for them to start a family.