The fifth horseman 9780380543878

"1981, papercover, 482pp, naam in het boek, goed In a suspenseful novel of terrorist threat, Libyan leader Qaddafi holds New York City hostage with the threat of setting off a hidden nuclear bomb. "THE PLOT IS TERRIFYINGLY SIMPLE..." The New York Times Book Review The President receives a nuclear ultimatum. Within hours, the world is convulsed in crisis, Cover-up, and panic. "COLLINS AND LAPIERRE HAVE SO CONVINCINGLY INTERWOVEN FACT AND FICTION THAT THE DETAILS OF CIVILIZATION'S VULNERABILITY TO NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL APPEAR TOTALLY REALISTIC." Time America will surrender to impossible demands...or a major city will be obliterated. There is no time for a warning. "A STUNNER...SOMETHING OF THIS SORT MAY SOMEDAY HAPPEN." Wall Street Journal On the streets of a city preparing for Christmas, every agonizing minute now brings 6.74 million unsuspecting Americans closer to 3-megaton annihilation. THE FIFTH HORSEMAN "TICKS TO AN EXPLOSIVE CONCLUSION." Chicago Sun-Times "GRABS THE READER AND DOES NOT LET GO." Associated Press"