Keys to the Kingdom

Name: Keys to the Kingdom
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Bob Graham
ISBN: 9781452672496

Author: Bob Graham

Narrator: George K. Wilson

Unabridged: 12 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/08/2011

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

Shortly after an explosive op-ed piece about the 9/11 investigation appears in the New York Times, its author, former senator and co-chair of the 9/11 Congressional Inquiry Commission, John Billington, is murdered near his Florida home.

Enter Tony Ramos, ex–Special Forces operative, former aid to Senator Billington, and currently a State Department intelligence analyst. Billington, having sensed the danger he faced, has left Ramos detailed instructions for an investigation into suspected Saudi complicity in 9/11. Ramos, in conjunction with Billington's daughter Laura, uncovers a shocking international conspiracy linking the Saudi Kingdom to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.

Despite efforts to derail their investigation, whose scope encompasses Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, Ramos and Laura discover that the Kingdom has recently provided bin Laden and al-Qaeda with three nuclear devices, two of which are successfully detonated by the terrorists overseas. But they were just a warmup to the grand finale. The third device, Ramos learns, will be detonated off the California coast. Now Ramos and a team of Special Forces must race against time to prevent al-Qaeda from unleashing nuclear disaster on American shores and beyond.

About Bob Graham

Bob Graham served eighteen years in the United States Senate and two terms as the Governor of Florida. He has been a regular contributor to National Public Radio's Morning Edition, a frequent guest on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC News, and has written op-eds for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Chicago Tribune, and many other publications. He lives with his wife in Miami Lakes, Florida.

Reviews

Goodreads review by William on August 30, 2011

Keys to the Kingdom by Senator Bob Graham This book is a frankly dismaying and terrifying look at the political intrigue surrounding our home land security. The credentials of this author are beyond impeccable. He states that this is a novelized form of events around and after 2001’s attack. 30 to 40......more

Goodreads review by Donna on May 26, 2011

John Billington, a former Senator, is murdered on the eve of his meeting with Tony Ramos, a State Dept. analyst and former member of Mr. Billington's staff. The who and why of that murder is pivotal in this novel by Senator Bob Graham. "Keys to the Kingdom" is an international, political thriller de......more

Goodreads review by Peggy on February 15, 2024

Senator Bob Graham uses his experience on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to craft an intriguing story about potential subsequent fallout from the 9/11 attacks if Saudi Arabia were to enter into the nuclear arms race by providing Osama bin Laden with nuclear weapons. In the story, former......more

Goodreads review by Gift on January 28, 2025

2.5 stars I may have enjoyed reading this book in the past, but I didn't enjoy a re-read I found a lot of the talk boring I did like a few parts but on the whole, I skipped way too many pages.........more

Goodreads review by Viviane on June 18, 2011

Ex-Special Forces government operative, Tony Ramos, an African-American Cuban skilled investigator is an expert on Afghanistan. Senator Billington and he believe that the Iraq war is a mission that is draining badly needed funds and on-the-ground military forces in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They see......more