Blindfold Game
by Dana Stabenow

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Book Review: The dirty bomb: "a weapon of mass disruption."
Summary: 4 Stars

Lt. Cmdr. Sara Lange is married to Hugh Rincon, a high-ranking official in the CIA, though their separate careers keep them apart for most of the year. Sara is dealing with Russian incursions into US waters, a Greenpeace vessel which plans, on its own, to drive the Russians from the fishing sanctuary, and a mounting storm which soon results in twenty-foot seas, when she learns from Hugh that a major terrorist attack is planned on Alaska. A "dirty bomb" is believed to be aboard an unknown ship near her in the Bering Sea. As the narrative alternates between the Sojourner Truth, to which Sara is assigned, and the vessel in which the four terrorists and their small army are hiding, a dramatic chess game unfolds, just as the fierce winter storm develops to hurricane force.

Author Dana Stabenow, who spent sixteen days aboard a Coast Guard cutter in the Bering Sea collecting information, fills this novel with details about Coast Guard life, giving it a verisimilitude which makes the action, behavior of the crew, and the dialogue come alive. Her insights into the problems of piracy, illegal arms sales, the impossibility of checking every container on every ship, the disregard of the Maritime Boundary Line by Russian fishing trawlers, and the complications created by well-meaning groups such as Greenpeace, give depth and high drama to the action as it unfolds.

With broader characterization than one usually finds in an action thriller, the novel also provides personal information about Sara Lange, Hugh Rincon, their friend Kyle Chase of the FBI and his wife and children, and the terrorists themselves, personalizing terrorism and the fight against it by various forces within the US government. Filled with excitement as the storm, the terrorists, and the Coast Guard all come together, the novel provides much to ponder about our vulnerability to increasingly militant terrorist cells. Mary Whipple