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The devil's light a novel

Just before the 10th anniversary of 9/11, al-Qaeda operative Amer Al Zaroor develops a plan to steal a nuclear weapon. Suspecting an attack, CIA agent Brooke Chandler reports this to his supervisors--but they're skeptical.

Main Author: Patterson, Richard North.
Corporate Author: Recorded Books, LLC., Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Other Authors: Boutsikaris, Dennis. (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2011], p2011.
Edition: Unabridged, [Recorded Books ed.].
Subjects:
Qaida (Organization) > Fiction.
Nuclear terrorism > Fiction.
Pakistan > Fiction.
Suspense fiction > Pakistan.
Audiobooks.
Summary: Just before the 10th anniversary of 9/11, al-Qaeda operative Amer Al Zaroor develops a plan to steal a nuclear weapon. Suspecting an attack, CIA agent Brooke Chandler reports this to his supervisors--but they're skeptical.
Item Description: Compact disc.
Title from container.
Release date supplied by publisher.
Recording originally produced by Simon & Schuster, Inc., p2011.
In container (17 cm.)
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Physical Description: 10 sound discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Issued also on cassette.
ISBN: 9781456121365
1456121367
Author Notes: Richard North Patterson was born in Berkeley, California on February 22, 1947. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1968 and Case Western Reserve University's School of Law in 1971. He has served as an assistant attorney general for the state of Ohio; a trial attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco; and was the SEC's liaison to the Watergate special prosecutor. He retired from the practice of law in 1993 to become a full-time writer. He studied creative writing with Jesse Hill Ford at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

His first novel, The Lasko Tangent, won an Edgar Allen Poe Award in 1979. His other works include Private Screening, Eyes of a Child, Silent Witness, No Safe Place, Exile, Eclipse, The Devil's Light, and Fall from Grace. He has received several awards of his work including the French Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in 1995 for Degree of Guilt and a Maggie Award from Planned Parenthood for Protect and Defend.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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