G. B. Grier’s debut foreign mystery novel, ATON, is surprising in its plausibility and its candor—Americans are in for the mother-of-all wake-up calls. whatever yet linear, something yet flat, and something yet formulaic, and entire with lots of grit, and an unceasing eye for element, the writer deals a plot jam-packed with motion, irony, overseas intrigue, and anything equivalent to unrequited love as a forty-year-old romance is magically rekindled.

The ebook is one among determined pursuit and venomous, winner-take-all aggression, irreversibly spiraling during the vortex of a super-charged rescue try out on the maximum degrees of the U.S. executive. on the center of all of it, former Vietnam military pilots earlier their best locate their lives replaced as they're unexpectedly tasked with in some way fixing a “Mission very unlikely” situation to intercede in an already underway overseas terrorists’ plan to kidnap the 1st girl. because the motion of the abduction plot, notwithstanding commandeered by means of the previous, thickens in the course of the frenzied twenty-four hour story, a treasonous chance via individuals of either Congress and the White condominium employees to hijack the presidency is ignited. Naval Intelligence less than direct orders from the Oval place of work unearths itself desperately time-limited not to merely find and safe a lone highschool instructor suspected of terrorism, but in addition to someway uncompromisingly—and quickly—convert her loyalty to the yank effort.

Fyodor Norlav, whose existence has been an event in entire frustration, definitely hates the US, no longer in contrast to one Hawa Hussein, who's additionally out for American blood, other than that Fyodor unearths himself in this situation taking part in moment mess around, the place he’ll accept a chance to complete Hawa’s explosive venture.

Terrorism within the usa dominates us simply because in contrast to all past nationwide conflicts, the US can't keep an eye on it. Terrorism has no situation, no geographical borders. It exists as a philosophy, and recruitment is very magnetic in that it grants every thing to people who don't have anything. Cleverly studying terrorism from opposing angles via causes, dogmas, and alluding to background itself, Grier provides the reader a clear glimpse into what the way forward for terrorism most likely holds for the United States and the western international as we all know it.

Readers come away with greater than only a nice tale with unforgettable characters; they arrive away with a cognizance that terrorism can strike somebody, at any place, at any time. now not with out wit and humor, Grier blends foreign, non-secular tensions with an unlimited array of well timed innuendo to provide a booklet of intrigue that aptly paints the very skinny line among love and hate, and warfare and peace.