Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Length: 725 pages
Audiobook Length: 31 hours and 12 minutes
First Published: 1986
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“Allah!”
With that shrill cry, three Muslim terrorists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, creating a critical oil shortage that threatens the stability of the USSR.
To offer the effects of this disaster, members of the Politburo and the KGB devise a brilliant plan of diplomatic trickery – a sequence of events designed to pit the NATO allies against each other – a distraction calculated to enable the Soviets to seize all the oil in the Persian Gulf.
But as this spellbinding story of international intrigue and global politics nears its climax, the Soviets are faced with another prospect, one they hadn’t planned on: a full-scale conflict in which nobody can win.
About Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy was an American author best known for his bestselling Jack Ryan series. Clancy was an insurance broker with a love of Naval history when he wrote his first novel, The Hunt for Red October, which launched him to instant acclaim. Since his death in 2013, Clancy’s works have been continued through a series of other authors. Visit the author’s website →
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