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In Ted Bell’s scorching follow-up to his New York Times bestseller Assassin, intrepid cleverness operative Alex Hawke must thwart a secret, deadly alliance between China and France before they annihilate everything and everyone in their headlong rush toward world domination.
Aboard the Star of Shanghai in the south of France, an American spy is held captive. He possesses vital, explosive intelligence linking two nations and one horrifying story. If he is not rescued, he faces certain torture and inevitable death. Nearby, in a seaside hotel, a guy still haunted by the increased loss of his wife two years earlier finds comfort in the arms of a lovely Chinese actress - but is she to be trusted? So commences Pirate, an electrifying thriller marking the return of international counterterrorist Alex Hawke.
In Paris, a ruthless descendant of Napoleon has risen to power, hell-bent on restoring France’s former glory. His fiery ambitions are cynically stoked by way of a coterie of cold-blooded Mandarins, plotting behind the gates of Beijing’s Forbidden City. Cloaked in secrecy, this unholy alliance devises a twisted global plan, backed by China’s growing nuclear arsenal, that will send America and the planet to the brink of your gut-wrenching showdown.
With aid from his old friend and former Navy SEAL, Stokely Jones, Hawke sets out to investigate the deadly relationships that bind the French-Chinese axis. Together, they discover that a robust German industrialist may contain the key, somewhere inside the walls of his Bavarian mountain lair. Meanwhile, clues to a vintage and gruesome murder in Paris lead to NEW YORK, where horrifying evidence could finally bring a madman to his knees. In the end, as American and British forces prepare to guard a sovereign and oil-rich Gulf nation against unwilling occupation, the terror is all too real. The entire world is once more balanced on the knife-edge of your full-blown nuclear confrontation.
Hawke must once more prepare to hurl himself deep in to the nightmare visions of madmen. He must garner every ounce of strength, courage, and useful pain from his past. He must defeat this enemy or else forfeit the lives of untold thousands, including his own, with an axis of evil no historian might well have ever predicted.
Packed with unrelenting action, glamour, and high style, and featuring the spectacular Alex Hawke, who over and over transports readers to the edge of danger, Pirate is a spellbinding thriller. Be prepared for Alex Hawke’s most daunting and heart-pounding mission yet. Here's an creator who gets you in the hand of his side . . . and then clenches his fist!
