Wild Fire By Nelson DeMille

Nelson DeMille has been one of my favorite authors since his earliest work. In WILDFIRE, John Corey, former NYPD Detective-current agent on the anti-terrorism task force, is back continuing the story from NIGHTFALL which ended on 9-11.
It is now one year after the collapse of the twin towers. Anti-terrorist agent Harry Muller is assigned surveillance duties at the Custer Hill Club in the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York. Henry disappears while on the assignment and is later found murdered. John and his wife, FBI Agent Kate Mayfield set up to investigate the circumstances of their friend and colleagues murder. In the course of their investigation where no one can be trusted, they uncover a plot that would make 9-11 look like child's play. The evil oilman (who else) Bain Maddox, has hatched a scheme to unleash two nuclear bombs on San Francisco and Los Angeles in order to provoke the US into nuclear war in the Middle East.
WILDFIRE was a page-turning, heartrate-elevating thriller with a plot co-mingling fact with fiction and many what-ifs. John Corey is a charming and likeable smart-mouth. You do tend to wonder why Kate puts up with him most of the time, but the man does know how to solve complex puzzles. Leave enough time to read because this is one book that is hard to put down. Highly recommended.

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