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Zusatztext “A smart, suspenseful, highly professional piece of work that should rank with the best of this year’s thrillers.” Informationen zum Autor Dick Wolf! a two-time Emmy award-winning writer! producer! and creator! is the architect of one of the most successful brands in the history of television—NBC's Law & Order ! one of the longest-running scripted shows. Wolf is also the creator and executive producer of Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. He has won numerous awards! including Emmys for Outstanding Drama Series ( Law & Order ) and Outstanding Made-for-Television Movie ( Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee ); a Grammy; and an Edgar. Wolf is the New York Times bestselling author of The Intercept and The Execution . The Ultimatum is the third book in his Jeremy Fisk series. He lives in Southern California. Klappentext An adrenaline-fueled thriller debut in the tradition of Three Days of the Condor from the famed creator of TV's Law & Order! featuring NYPD Detective Jeremy Fisk! who is New York City's last hope against an ingenious! multi-pronged terrorist attack. Zusammenfassung Dick Wolf makes his literary debut with this tense! driving thriller! reminiscent of the classic The Day of the Jackal ! an extraordinary tale filled with the ingenious twists and high-wire suspense we have come to expect from this master storyteller Days before the July Fourth holiday and the dedication of One World Trade Center at Ground Zero! an incident aboard a commercial jet flying over the Atlantic Ocean reminds everyone that vigilance is not a task to be taken lightly. But for iconoclastic NYPD detective Jeremy Fisk! it may also be a signal that there is much more to this case than the easy answer of this being just the work of another lone terrorist. Fisk—assigned to the department's Intelligence Division! a well-funded antiterror unit modeled on the CIA—suspects that the event might also be a warning sign that another! potentially more extraordinary scheme has been set in motion. Fluent in Arabic and the ways of his opponents! Fisk is a rule breaker who follows his gut—even if it means defying those above him in the department's food chain. So when a passenger from the same plane! a Saudi Arabian national! disappears into the crowds of Manhattan! it's up to Fisk and his partner Krina Gersten to find him before the celebrations begin. Watching each new lead fizzle! chasing shadows to dead ends! Fisk and Gersten quickly realize that their opponents are smarter and more agile than any they have ever faced. Extremely clever and seemingly invisible! they are able to exploit any security weak-ness and anticipate Fisk's every move . . . and time is running out. Inhaltsverzeichnis ENG ...
