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Soft Target : A Thriller/ Hunter, Stephen.
Black Friday America?s largest shopping mall Suburban Minneapolis 3:00 P.M. Ten thousand people jam the aisles, the corridors, the elevators, and the escalators of America, the Mall?a giant Rubik?s Cube of a structure with its own amusement park located in the spacious center atrium. Of those people, nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight have come to shop. The other twelve have come to kill. Stephen Hunter?s hyper-drive, eighth-gear new thriller, Soft Target, Ray Cruz, one of the heroes of Hunter?s last bestseller, Dead Zero FBI Sniper Dave McElroy has a gun. But positioned on the roof of the vast building, looking down through one of its thickly paned Great Lakes?shaped skylights, and without explosives or fuses?or the go-ahead from his superiors?he is effectively cut off from his targets and forced into the role of witness to the horror unfolding below. Set during the four hours of the terrifying event, the story follows both hostages and gunmen, detailing the complex strategic police response, the full-press media saturation coverage, even the politics of SWAT as both the Minnesota State Police and the FBI struggle to control, confront, and ultimately defuse the crisis. Having learned the lessons of Columbine, the feds believe that immediate action is the only solution. But Douglas Obobo, the charismatic and ambitious commandant of the state police, orders cooperation, tolerance, communication, and empathy for the gunmen. He feels that with his superior negotiating skills, he can make contact with the shooters and gently nudge them into surrender. But what if their goal all along has been unparalleled massacre?and they?re only waiting for prime time? With unrelenting suspense and vivid scenes of violence and chaos in the center of a terror-crazed afternoon in Middle America, thriller master Stephen Hunter takes us into the belly of the softest of soft targets.
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- ISBN: 9781439149942
- ISBN: 1439149941
- Physical Description: 1 online resource 1 online resource (272 pages)
- Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Simon & Schuster, 2011.
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General Note: | Electronic book. |
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Subject: | Thrillers. Adventure. Snipers > Fiction. Terrorism > Prevention > Fiction. Minnesota > Fiction. |
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