Liberty, Stephen Coonts
Liberty, Stephen Coonts
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Liberty

Author: Stephen Coonts

Narrator: Guerin Barry

Unabridged: 15 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/16/2017


Synopsis

On a quiet park bench in Manhattan—just miles from the ruins of the World Trade Center—a spymaster delivers a chilling secret message to Jake Grafton: A rogue Russian general has sold four nuclear warheads to a radical Islamic terrorist group, the Sword of Islam. The group intends to detonate them in America in the ultimate terror strike, the apocalypse that will trigger a holy war between Western civilization and the Muslim world. After passing the message on to his peers, Grafton is charged by the president with assembling a secret team to find the warheads before America's population centers are consumed by a nuclear holocaust.As he hunts for terrorists, Grafton soon finds himself up to his neck in power politics, techno-billionaires, money-grubbing traitors, anarchists, and spies. He also discovers that the terrorists don't all come from the Middle East. They come from places close to home. They masquerade as patriots. Some may even have the president's ear.With the survival of Western civilization at stake, Grafton pulls out all the stops. Calling on the assistance of the indomitable Toad Tarkington, and CIA burglar Tommy Carmellini, he raids the prisons to assemble his team while the clock ticks toward Armageddon.

About Stephen Coonts

This biography could be entitled, West Virginia Boy Becomes a Very Successful Author....... but that would be too obvious. Author, Stephen Coonts was born and raised in Buchanan, West Virginia, a small town of 6,000. He led the typical life of any boy growing up in the 50's and 60's.

He was born in 1946, and ended his childhood by graduating from West Virginia University with a degree in political science. As happens with many poli-sci grads, he had a law degree in mind, but first he served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy and began flight training in Pensacola, Florida.

Coonts received his wings after completion of fleet replacement training in the A-6 Intruder aircraft. After serving in the Vietnam War as an attack fighter, he served as a flight instructor, and did a tour of duty on the USS Nimitz. Upon leaving the Navy, he entered the University of Colorado School of Law. After receiving his law degree, he moved back to West Virginia to practice for a couple of years. But, his career took him back to Colorado where he specialized in oil and gas law.

Finally, in 1986, he published his first novel, Flight of the Intruder, which became a huge success, being on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover. Later, a movie by the same title was produced based on his novel, and was released nationally in 1991. All of his books have been published in several different countries.

Currently, Coonts lives in Colorado with his third wife, Deborah, He continues to write novels from Colorado.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay on December 19, 2020

Jake is ordered to find 4 nuclear bombs sold by the Russians to the Sword of Islam. He has a friend in Russia that makes him aware of it and sends one of his agents with a disc with financial information on sources of money. It looks as if a corrupt US businessman has funded the purpose. Jake's team......more

Goodreads review by Jim on September 05, 2020

Jake Grafton fights Washington DC's jealous Intelligence bureaucracy with some help from a questionable ex-KGB operative and a small cadre of oddballs as he heads off a post-9/11 Islamic nuclear terror plot. Well done, entertaining, and thought provoking.......more

Goodreads review by Anna on June 14, 2014

I suppose the meh-ness of this book settled in on page 12 when Janos Ilin says this fatal line... "Russians, Germans, French, Egyptians, Japanese, Chinese, Hindu, you name it." On the rest of it.... I guess I just don't like his writing style very much.......more

Goodreads review by Mitch on January 04, 2025

It is hard to subtract points from a book when the author has done exactly what is asked of him. We want Coonts to turn out Grafton novels and this is his 10th. Certainly a believable story but it just could have been so much better in my opinion. Rogue Russian general sells nuclear weapons to rag h......more

Goodreads review by Alec on November 21, 2023

Written in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in 2001, Stephen Coonts novel Liberty is part continuation of the Jake Grafton series and part social commentary reflective of a very unique/anxious time in American history. As with previous books in the series, Mr. Coonts does an excellent job......more