Burning the Apostle

The cold war is dead. Yet new, even more frightening wars have sprung up elsewhere. The field of battle for Devereaux - code name November - as been outside the American border, until now. In Burning The Apostle, the best November Man novel yet, Devereaux must turn his finely tooled spymaster's art to the enemy within, the most elusive and dangerous enemy of all. The stage is Washington and Chicago. The conflict is driven by demagogues, with their narrow special interests and private agendas, and the arrogant, corrupt politicians willing to go along with them. Britta Andrews, a bright, beautiful heiress with a radical environmental consciousness, joins with former army ordnance officer Max Escher. Their goal: to hatch an audacious plan that can destroy the civilian nuclear energy industry in one bold stroke. Their method: burn down a single Midwestern nuclear plant called The Apostle, creating a Chernobyl-like cloud of poison that will shock and outrage the world. The financing for the plot is to come from a mysterious Lebanese source, the International Credit Clearinghouse. Covertly allied to the conspirators is Michael Horan, the playboy U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and Britta's lover. The scenario explodes with a massive, brilliantly conceived fire inside the Pentagon that nearly shuts it down. Drawn into the nightmare web of events is Devereaux, now senior advisor in R Section. Yet even Devereaux can't foresee the global breadth and lethal complexity of the threat that is to gradually enmesh him. In less than twenty-four hours, the November Man will have to defuse the most potentially devastating act of sabotage in history - and avenge an agonizingly personal injustice. Burning The Apostle is a masterpiece of suspense, sensuality, and authorial style-hallmarks in the craft of espionage fiction that fans of Bill Granger and the November Man series have come to expect.


Genre: Thriller