Takedown Novel

Plot

Scott Harvath abducts an Algerian bomb-maker out of Montreal while another U.S. team snatches Mohammed bin Mohammed (a.k.a M&M), head of al-Qaeda’s weapons of mass destruction committee, from Somalia and stashes him in a secret facility in New York City. But Harvath’s premonition that the next terrorist attack would make “9/11 look like choir practice” comes true when Al-Qaeda operative Abdul Ali, backed by a three-foot-tall freelance intelligence agent known as “the Troll,” goes to New York to rescue M&M. As part of the al-Qaeda rescue attempt, the Big Apple comes under furious attack. The U.S. president’s daughter is seriously injured and thousands are slain as Harvath and his team chase a ruthless enemy through the devastated streets and subways. Bullets fly, bombs explode and people die. Back in Washington, to the disgust of the president, cowardly bureaucrats mewl and whine.