Pirate Alley
(2013)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/COONTS,S

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Fiction FICTION/COONTS,S Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2013
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

310 pages ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780312372842 (hardcover), 0312372841 (hardcover)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

A luxurious vacation cruise to the exotic locales of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden turns into a nightmare for passengers and crew when their ship is suddenly attacked and captured by a band of bloodthirsty Somali pirates. An initial rescue mission ends in failure; the decks are covered in blood. Unless they are paid a ransom of $200 million dollars within seven days, the pirates threaten to execute all their hostages. But information gleaned from a captured Al Qaeda operative indicates that there is a far more dangerous conspiracy afoot. Once the ransom is paid, Islamic militants intend to swoop in and slaughter the passengers in an orgy of terror, hoping to provoke a massive American military response that will set the Muslim world aflame. Jake Grafton is assigned to negotiate with the brutal pirate chief while his right hand man, Tommy Carmellini, and a team of CIA and Navy SEAL operatives mount an undercover operation to save the hostages and keep the U.S. from being maneuvered into a murderous war