The Plot To Hack America...
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Author is a former VIA agent Wikimedia stuff.

The Plot to h
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Works great to see how the scamming Dems are destroying the country...and Trump is Making America America Again!!
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The US is practically under siege. ISIS has sleeper cells all over the country. Terror attacks happen on almost a daily basis. And the attacks are getting creative.

Such as a nuke detonated in the South Pole setting numerous glaciers afloat, melting as they drift, raising ocean levels and scattering refugees inland in all the countries with a coastline, US included. Or the small boatload of Islamics off the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. When confronted by the Coast Guard, they immediately surrender. No suicide vests. No weapons. Off to jail they go. And then everyone they meet in the legal process heads home, interacts with all their friends and their friend's friends. All now exposed, contracting, and dying from smallpox. Suicide 'bombers' don't always need explosives.

Lana Elkins runs a computer security company that contracts with NSA. She works the highest profile and most lethal attacks to the computer infrastructure. 'Steel Fist' is a blogger from the outback of Idaho who espouses violence of the worst kind. Genocide against anyone who doesn't look like him. And it's not like he's this generation's Unabomber. This guy has millions of followers. With every ISIS terror attack, the number of followers jump. And while he's technically good, he gets help from a mysterious guardian angel who is technically gifted. The Steel Fist gets shut down and within minutes he's back spouting his bile.

After getting attacked by Lana's company once again, the Steel Fist decides to take the glove off. He published pictures of Lana, her daughter, her daughter's route to/from school, where she hangs out, her boyfriend (high school classmate who immigrated from Sudan). Everything. And his followers are out in force primarily to kill her daughter. But her boyfriend has his own guardian angel. His uncle, a harsh man with a past tied to Al Queda. At times he's overly protective, other times he accepts what the two kids have with each other.

One of the Fist's followers manages to stage a successful kidnapping. To get her back, Lana has to go to Idaho alone.

This is the third 'Code' novel by Waite. It'd been awhile since I read Lethal Code (#1 in the series) and remember I liked it a lot. Well, Waite hasn't lost my attention. This is a tense, taut, light-speed story that sprints between Bethesda, the NSA, and Idaho. Numerous times. Lana and her daughter are no shrinking violets. Both are highly competant and resourceful with both a keyboard and a firearm. A serious story, serious actions, serious consequences.

I really need to find Trident Code.

East Coast Don
MenReadingBooks.com

available July 12, 2016
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A nuclear bomb has been sold by the Russian mob to renegade hacker, Cloud, who is out to avenge his parents death at the hands of the CIA two generations ago.
The bomb is spirited out of Russia on an old freighter and sets course for America to arrive on the Fourth of July to set off its own explosive light display on American soil, aiming to kill hundreds of thousands.
With all seven American agents taken out in the field of combat on Russian soil by Cloud, who has infiltrated the CIA databanks giving him an inside track on every move the American government makes. It is left to washed-up Secret Agent Dewey Andreas to handle the task even though the agency wants him in a clinic in Sedona, Arizona to be treated for PTSD.
Operating blind, in the field of play, with only three days left to discover the whereabouts of the missing bomb, Andreas sets in motion actions to locate Cloud by kidnapping his fianc&eacute;, the famous ballet dancer, Katya Basaeyev, and torturing her until Cloud confesses, if he can find him.
Working hand-in-hand with the young and powerful head of the Russian mob, Alexi Malnikov, the two strange bedfellows flush out the terrorist and race to save America from a fate worse than was served up on 9/11.
Coes keeps us guessing up until the last second as to whether or not they are
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Retiring to the US and Texas from Afghanistan after many years in the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, Augie Bauer and his childhood friend Quan (who is of Comanche descent) are approached by an officer from Homeland Security to go back to fight a planned terror attack on US soil by the Talibans. Intertwined is an unexpected ingredient, passive-aggressive mutism as a means of inhibiting a number of subjects from ever talking to any single class of preselected listeners. An acolyte has been a most notable success. He'll never speak of the plans to an American, regardless of what they may do to him. The Americans must never learn that our purpose is to dispose of their entire political leadership." This is just the beginning, to be followed by more scientifical killing devices such as adding radioactively polluted sweeteners to coffee for unsuspecting conventioners in the US, Iranian nuclear scientists put their newest revelations into use to eradicate Americans.
It is a threat to the nation. This is a page-turner, a thrilling and entertaining story by John Scheiwe. A follow up to this thrilling adventure is in the pipeline. It's a 5 star reading.
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Terrifying.  Pretty much a hard-back essay of why I should get a food freeze dryer and lots of ammo.  The government says no one could have seen 9/11 coming, despite book plots in the 90's that included the use of aircraft as weapons, including a Tom Clancy book in which a 747 takes out the capitol building.  Can't help but wonder if we'll hear the same excuse "that no one could have predicted this" when some hacker or foreign power takes down our power grid for a large percentage of the country.  The question won't be if  people will die, it will be a question of whether it will be in the thousands or the millions.  Of course, we'll only hear that government denial via word-of-mouth since we won't actually have any TV's with power to watch the news.
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Blaine McCracken and his friends, Johnny Wareagle and Sam Belamo, are back (#11) in a fast paced novel of modern day home terrorists exciting religious warfare against American Muslims as a cover for an even more diabolical plan to destroy the government with a weapon of mass destruction. This weapon has gone undiscovered until recently, but was the reason for the Roanoke colony and ship crew of the Mary Celeste disappearance.
  Enter an assassin trained in Russia for Iran, a cult leader offering salvation through mutilation and sex, and government leaders who want to overthrow the current government. McCracken flies all over the country tracking down clues from various bombing sites, the first of which injured his "sons's" son (complicated). As McCracken checks in with an old Vietnam, bong smoking buddy and a retired, sometimes lucid, operative, the plan of the bad guys becomes more and more evident. They all begin to converge on Washington.
  I have never read any of the books by Jon Land, but I will be looking up his other novels. His writing is clear, imaginative and creative. He began the black-ops, spy, out-in-the-cold genre before it was popularized by other authors. His devotion to technical detail makes his books so believable and terrifying. I give The Tenth Circle a resounding 5 stars. Enjoy the ride!
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What do you get when you combine Coulter and Ellison? A fast paced, nail biter of a thriller!

Someone has hacked the computers of the highest levels of government. How could something like this happen? They all use the most sophisticated and impenetrable programs and firewalls. All from the same company. Could the hacks be done by a disgruntled employee or are they being infiltrated by the very person who designed the system?

Along with a mysterious book of unknown language that has at the forefront twins descended from Vlad himself. Bodies are piling up, key government officials killed in full view of the public and no one saw a thing. Other bodies are showing up having been bled dry. For What?

This was everything and more I have come to expect from these authors. Very good collaboration!

NetGalley/Gallery  April 10, 2018
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What if a terrorist- even of the domestic variety- has a dirty bomb and the government must determine its location before countless innocent Americans are killed in the name of jihad? Are extreme measures warranted? Lawson takes this conundrum further with a resounding affirmative. The alphabet agencies tackle the issue with clear consciences after two Muslim-Americans are arrested in Boston before they have an opportunity to complete their mission, bombing the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel. That they are disaffected locals recruited by a visiting Iranian imam is of little consequence. The two young men have both the will and the means to do considerable damage. Now their leader has escaped, with plans to try again. Aware of the escaped man's identity, the FBI must find this loose cannon before he connects with more willing pawns. Citizens newly awakened to an increasing threat on American soil, William Davis Broderick, the junior senator from Virginia, is meeting little resistance garnering support for an outrageous bill that would affect even the Muslim-American community.

It would be natural as breathing for the Speaker of the House, John Fitzpatrick Mahoney, to block the bill, but personal complications obstruct his usual methodology. As an alternative, Mahoney calls on his trusty aide, Joe DeMarco (The Inside Ring, The Second Perimeter), ostensibly Counsel Pro Tem for Liaison Affairs, but really the speaker's fixer. As in Lawson's two previous novels, DeMarco stars in yet another thrilling race against time, this one complicated by an increase in internal terrorist activities, men who otherwise have been model citizens. As is his way, DeMarco digs beneath the surface, doubting the obvious explanation for the attacks. What he discovers yields a number of possibilities: power brokers who support Broderick's agenda with their checkbooks, overworked bureaucrats, an assassination specialist, an enormous methamphetamine distribution enterprise with a ready assortment of goons and the usual subterfuges that define Washington politics.

Wading into the fear and paranoia of terrorist attacks on American soil and the gradual erosion of public privacy, Lawson puts his finger on the pulse of a country still immobilized by 9/11 and willing to purchase safety at any price. The author seems to have found his stride in this third outing, but I didn't find this effort as tense or compelling as the prior two, although familiar characters return to help DeMarco juggle the various tangents of the investigation, particularly Emma, a former spy who still has a long reach into government agencies. By the time each now twist is revealed- and there are many- Lawson has already tipped the reader, not keeping many secrets. DeMarco has become a little too predictable; I would like to see him handle his business with more sophistication next time. Luan Gaines/ 2008.
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...What do you suppose would happen if a mysterious light suddenly appeared in the night sky and played tag with a modern American fighter, shortly before the jet was blown into little pieces?
 And what if a short time later, another American fighter was destroyed, followed by a U.S. recon plane and its crew?
 Obviously, China is behind all this, not some mysterious saucer-like craft that portends an alien invasion. Joe Weber, another ex-Navy fighter/attack jock who has shown his skills with a word processor are equal to his flying ability, takes us aboard today's best-equipped ships and planes and deep into the bowels of the intelligence network as the U.S. unravels the mystery.
 When it's proven that China - specifically its power-mad, lunatic leader (a fictional character who bears no resemblance to the current dictator) - is up to no good, the U.S. president assigns his best team. Two civilians.
 Well, actually, hero Scott Dalton is an ex-Marine Harrier pilot who was trained by the CIA and various other clandestine organizations. His assistant is a fetching female ex-F-16 driver.
 As civilians with the entire American power structure and all of its various secretive organizations helping them, they undertake some daring missions, in the air, on land and under sea.
 Okay, hold on, this is starting to sound like a comic book without pictures, but Weber has written a first class techno-thriller and when you're reading it, it seems entirely plausible. The action is fast and furious, the military action intense and every one of the 333 pages pulls you along to the next adventure.
 Southern Californians will recognize many of the locales (one character died right here in Oceanside) and Dalton and his assistant managed to rack up a few thousand frequent flier miles as they work to uncover the puzzle.
 That is, when they're not being shot at or having their rental cars bombed.
 China, meanwhile, decides it's time to invade Taiwan and, as you'd expect, the action is bloody and the sky filled with missiles. Nuclear war seems to be looming ...
 Weber has produced a solid book aimed directly at us military action junkies. If you read his "DEFCON One" you know what a treat you're in for.
 If not, sit back and prepare to be entertained.
- Wayman Dunlap
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A very interesting book of how a huge section of Americans have duped themselves into believing nonsense. Chris Hedges shows how the Christian Right's Commissars have adapted fascist tactics, in an attempt to steal the nation away from it original belief structure. Their tactics are very Germanic, and come out of the early playbook of the National Socialists. There is the use of non-threatening words, code words, and clichs to identify believers to one another. There is also jockeying for position just below the master ruling elite, if you are fascist and rich enough, there is the promise of being elevated to right below them, to become one of the Commedantes in the new world Christian order. They even have their own Mein Kampf called The Institutes Of Biblical Law by R. J. Rushdoony.
Hedges with his background as a seminary graduate, is able to see through their religious hypocrisy. For them this is the fear of death and non-existence taken to an extreme, since the death fear is the final part of the abandonment cycle that is a normal component of our egos. It is just that Christians cannot reconcile themselves to it, and are desperately searching for a way out, a magical trap door, which becomes solely a profession of belief, with no hard work to perform, or complex thought. Apparently the main tenet is they are the best and the chosen, by the virtue of belief, while everyone else is satanic and the enemy. They have traded morality for "Serbian Alzheimer's disease: they have forgotten everything but their resentments." All this is built upon the denial of modern science and logic and replacing it with magical belief and distortions of the reality, and premeditated lies.
 The reader finds it is strange that a group of people can be bonded so closely by faith, instead, as Hedges mentions, that for the German fascists, bonding agent was "Blut und Boden: Blood and Soil." And I wonder, can be the fatal flaw in the Christian Dominionist Movement. And if it is, can it be exploited? Additionally, do they realize, although they are Americans, that this makes them the spiritual and social inheritors of the German National Socialists? And do they care?
All this might seem impossible or humorous, if their script for their new order did not require the death of the majority of the world's population. For them its like being a super-spy: hiding it plain sight; plotting and planning; laughing at the beliefs of others; winning little victories here and there; waiting for Der Tag, to proclaim the anti-intellectual thousand year Christian Reich. This nihilistic vision of the future puts them with the most savage of totalitarians. If left unmolested his Christian fantasyland can only lead to a dead planet, and an extinct sentient species. With the surviving whales and dolphins, toasting in remembrance to us with a tuna.
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This was a great read about how America was attacked by Germany on our own soil before our formal entry into WWI.  No NSA or FBI was around.  Instead, it fell upon a small unit of NYPD police officers to try to unravel what was happening.  A spy thriller that's true.  I loved it.
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A must read (the sooner the better)!!! Something like this could (and most likely will) happen if we don't get our heads out of our butts and start interweaving the pieces of the big picture together!  From our up-to-the second "must have" technology to the gleeful shouts to Allah as they committed their vile acts to the open borders and questionable leadership of this country, this book will make you think and scare the hell out of you!
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This David Baldacci thriller should open the eyes of the reader to the possibility of those in high places in government administrations deserting the values of freedom for financial gain. Trailers very likely can come from those who control the workings of the resources of this or any other agencies. Look out America, this could be happening as you read this very note.
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This book, although it could use some editing and is occasionally a bit confusing, is really scary in how well it portrays the issues facing America today.

I firmly believe that we have exactly the kind of greedy, power hungry, bad guys running our country as the author described.

As horrible and destructive as it would be, I believe we NEED this kind of revolution!

HOW CAN WE MAKE IT HAPPEN?!?!?
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Death of Secrets was definitely a political thriller and I'm afraid that it might be to close to reality.  It's a frightening thought that someone in the government could be duped so easily and it's even more frightening to think that a government contractor could produce the program to read American citizen's thoughts. I have actually thought that this could be possible before reading this book and I'm afraid it is not too far fetched. A person who is very savvy in writing computer programs or a hacker would probably enjoy this book.  I am only basically computer literate and Iiked the book.
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As a former Counterintelligence agent for the US government I can say this is very plausible.  However, catching the bad guys is not usually that easy.  This was another page turner by Mr Aldrich and I appreciate the level of research he did.  I highly recommend this book.  People for open borders should heed its message.

DC