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Blindfold Game
by Dana Stabenow

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Author: Dana Stabenow
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-01-10
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur

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

A terrorist bombing in Pattaya Beach, Thailand, in October, 2004, is the prelude to this dramatic and exciting sea chase, as Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander Sara Lange becomes engaged in much more dangerous activity than patrolling the Maritime Boundary Line between the US and the Russia. Two brothers, known only as Smith and Jones, from Korea, have joined a Singaporean pirate named Mr. Noortman, and a Chinese pirate named Fang and have bombed Pattaya Beach as a dress rehearsal for bigger destruction. They have succeeded in obtaining cesium-137, usually used for radiation treatments in hospitals, and they plan to make a "dirty bomb" from it, firing it into Anchorage, Alaska, with its population of 240,000 people.

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

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