Shakedown (9780062979179)

Mayberry and Garrett, introduced in the national bestseller Collusion, are caught in the middle of a deadly crisis with a pending nuclear bomb attack and little help from the government that sidelined them both.When an exiled Iranian scientist is assassinated inWashington, DC, the former FBI counterintelligence agent and ex-SEAL are pulled back into theworld of clandestine ops--and the fate of the entireEast Coast is at stake. Joining ranks with a heraldedMossad agent, Mayberry and Garrett pursue a skilledinternational killer hired to murder a legendary Israeli spymaster. Their pursuit draws them into an internationalconspiracy led by a power-hungry Russian oligarchintent on destroying Washington, DC, and the Navy'smost important Atlantic base. The oligarch plots tounleash a nuclear onslaught first devised by the KGBbut shelved by Kremlin leaders during the Cold War.On top of this, Iran's sudden offer to help the UnitedStates raises suspicions about its possible role in aglobal shakedown. With too many enemies emerging and too littletime, the two Americans are forced to operate outsideofficial channels to stay ahead of naive US politiciansand foreign enemies out to entangle their efforts inred tape. Operating in an international tinderbox, Mayberry and Garrett must decipher which playersare allies and which are posers--in time to thwart acataclysmic nuclear attack on US soil and prevent aninternational incident that could ignite a third worldwar. And they must keep themselves alive.

Author:

Newt Gingrich

Publisher:

HarperLuxe

Publication Date:

March 24, 2020

Number of pages:

528 pages

Language:

English

Binding:

Paperback

ISBN-10:

0062979175

ISBN-13:

9780062979179