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

The e-book is one in all determined pursuit and venomous, winner-take-all aggression, irreversibly spiraling in the course of the vortex of a super-charged rescue try out on the optimum 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 all at once tasked with in some way fixing a “Mission most unlikely” state of affairs to intercede in an already underway overseas terrorists’ plan to kidnap the 1st girl. because the motion of the abduction plot, notwithstanding commandeered via the previous, thickens throughout the frenzied twenty-four hour story, a treasonous chance by way of participants of either Congress and the White condominium employees to hijack the presidency is ignited. Naval Intelligence less than direct orders from the Oval workplace unearths itself desperately time-limited not to simply find and safe a lone highschool instructor suspected of terrorism, but additionally to in some way uncompromisingly—and quickly—convert her loyalty to the yank effort.

Fyodor Norlav, whose existence has been an event in entire frustration, definitely hates the USA, now not not like one Hawa Hussein, who's additionally out for American blood, other than that Fyodor reveals himself in this quandary enjoying moment mess around, the place he’ll accept a chance to complete Hawa’s explosive undertaking.

Terrorism within the usa dominates us simply because not like all earlier nationwide conflicts, the United States can't regulate it. Terrorism has no situation, no geographical borders. It exists as a philosophy, and recruitment is extremely magnetic in that it offers every thing to people who don't have anything. Cleverly interpreting terrorism from opposing angles via reasons, dogmas, and alluding to historical past itself, Grier provides the reader a clear glimpse into what the way forward for terrorism very 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 a person, at any place, at any time. no longer with out wit and humor, Grier blends overseas, non-secular tensions with an enormous array of well timed innuendo to supply a publication of intrigue that aptly paints the very skinny line among love and hate, and struggle and peace.