02412cam a2200373 i 4500 10189251 TxGeo 20021115120000.0 021030s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780312283612 hbk. 031228361X hbk. (OCoLC)51022955 TxGeo rda Coonts, Stephen, 1946- Liberty / Stephen Coonts. 1st ed. New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2003. 420 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Jake Grafton ; 10 On a quiet park bench in Manhattan---just miles from the ruins of the World Trade Center---spymaster Jake Janos Illin delivers a chilling secret message to Jake Grafton: A rogue Russian general has sold four nuclear warheads to a radical Islamic terrorist group, the Sword of Islam. The group intends to detonate them in America in the ultimate terror strike, the apocalypse that will trigger a holy war between Western civilization and the Muslim world. After passing Illin's message to his superiors, Grafton is charged by the president with the task of assembling a secret team to find the warheads before America's population centers are consumed by a nuclear holocaust. As he hunts for the terrorists, Grafton soon finds himself up to his neck in power politics, techno-billionaires, money-grubbing traitors, anarchists, and spies. He also discovers that the terrorists don't all come from the Middle East. They come from places close to home. They masquerade as patriots. Some may even have the president's ear. With the survival of Western civilization at stake, Grafton pulls out all the stops. Calling on the assistance of the indomitable Toad Tarkington, and CIA burglar Tommy Carmellini, he raids the prisons to assemble his team while the clock ticks toward Armageddon. 20150504. Grafton, Jake (Fictitious character) Fiction. Terrorism Prevention Fiction. Illegal arms transfers Fiction. Nuclear terrorism Fiction. Washington (D.C) Fiction. Cairo (Egypt) Fiction. Suspense fiction. Jake Grafton ; 10. QS5