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PILLARS OF FIRE Shagan, Steve
New York Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group 1989 0-671-68939-8 / 9780671689391 Hardcover Very good Condition
Author of a half-dozen previous adventure novels, Shagan develops this fast-moving techno-thriller around the ``Muslim bomb.'' The year is 1992. Pakistan is manufacturing nuclear warheads for supply to Libya, whose targets are Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The rockets are being made by a German firm shielding neo-Nazi scientists. The Israeli task is to destroy both the Libyan launch sites and the Pakistani nuclear facility without triggering a world war. But their plans depend on a deep-cover CIA agent, journalist Tom Lawford, who is facing a crisis of conscience. The key of the work is Shagan's insistence that a continuum exists between the Holocaust and current Islamic hostility to Israel. In developing this point, however, he devotes excessive space to a subplot marginal to the novel's resolution. Otherwise, the complex story line is handled well, the denouement making clever use of contemporary technologies--including one aircraft just canceled by the U.S. Characterization of Israel as a warfare state by necessity adds a chilling dimension to a provocative story
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PILLARS OF FIRE (A Novel) Shagan, Steve
New York Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group 1989 0-671-68939-8 / 9780671689391 Hardcover As New
ABOUT THE BOOK Pillars of Fire FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly Author of a half-dozen previous adventure novels, Shagan develops this fast-moving techno-thriller around the ``Muslim bomb." The year is 1992. Pakistan is manufacturing nuclear warheads for supply to Libya, whose targets are Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The rockets are being made by a German firm shielding neo-Nazi scientists. The Israeli task is to destroy both the Libyan launch sites and the Pakistani nuclear facility without triggering a world war. But their plans depend on a deep-cover CIA agent, journalist Tom Lawford, who is facing a crisis of conscience. The key of the work is Shagan's insistence that a continuum exists between the Holocaust and current Islamic hostility to Israel. In developing this point, however, he devotes excessive space to a subplot marginal to the novel's resolution. Otherwise, the complex story line is handled well, the denouement making clever use of contemporary technologies--including one aircraft just canceled by the U.S. Characterization of Israel as a warfare state by necessity adds a chilling dimension to a provocative story. $100,000 ad/promo; author tour. (Sept.) Library Journal Shagan's ( Vendetta, LJ 7/86) latest thriller is set in the immediate future and is an all too plausible extrapolation of today's news. Tom Lawford, a successful journalist and deep cover CIA agent, is assigned to help Israeli intelligence locate a missile launch site somewhere in the Libyan desert. His cover story is the investigation of a German company, controlled by aging Nazi rocket pioneers, which is exporting technology to Libya. All indications point to the rockets being used for a nuclear strike against Israel with war heads developed at a Pakistani nuclear research center. The nonstop action, which prevents disaster with seconds to spare, covers several countries and contains a neatly presented, and solved, technical problem. Great escapist reading, despite its terrifying possibility.--
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