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The sword of Orion

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	PS3573.H47476 S9 1993	Off-site

Description

280 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Afghan "soldiers of God" bring the world to the edge of nuclear Armageddon when they steal a Russian hydrogen bomb, vowing to detonate it if the West fails to comply with their demands. At stake is a vast strategic territory: the rich but unstable states of the Islamic Arc, from Africa through the Middle East and Pakistan and ultimately the seething Moslem enclaves of the former Soviet Union.
Only a handful of people know how to recover the warhead before the rebels unleash the powers of the twenty-first century in the name of their thousand-year-old struggle: a U.S. Navy nuclear detection team, flying a highly modified P-3 Orion commanded by an American man and woman, and a retired Russian Special Forces captain with painful firsthand experience in the uncharted wilds of Afghanistan.
Together they must outwit the soldiers of God, Russian opportunists, and American intelligence operatives who turn their backs on their own secret war. In a desperate final battle fought deep inside one of Islam's holiest shrines, all three discover the key to powers far greater than those locked within a hydrogen bomb: the powers of faith, of honor, of courage. A brilliant new technothriller, The Sword of Orion is the story of the next global war...one step ahead of tomorrow's headlines.

Subject

Genre/Form

Adventure fiction.

ISBN

0517588072 :

LCCN

92030136

OCLC

ocm26400464

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries