Pinnacle Event, Richard A. Clarke
Pinnacle Event, Richard A. Clarke
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Pinnacle Event
A Novel

Author: Richard A. Clarke

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Unabridged: 8 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/19/2015


Synopsis

With the 2016 presidential election just weeks away, five simultaneous murders on three continents lead to an investigation revealing the recent black-market sale of five nuclear weapons. But who bought them? And what is their intended target?

Washington fears the bombs are timed to explode in major American cities before the election. They call on intelligence expert Ray Bowman to prevent the attack. With the help of a Mossad agent and a female South African intelligence officer, he follows a trail across the world to track down the missing nukes. Along the way, he discovers that the people who now control the bombs intend to do something much more devastating than expected, something that it will make nuking a few cities look like a mild attack.

Drawing on his decades of experience at the highest levels of national security, Richard A. Clarke's Pinnacle Event-the Pentagon code for a nuclear threat-is a gripping international thriller told from the rare vantage point of a true Washington insider.

About Richard A. Clarke

RICHARD A. CLARKE served for thirty years in the United States Government, including an unprecedented ten continuous years as a White House official, serving three consecutive Presidents. In the White House he was Special Assistant to the President for Global Affairs, Special Advisor to the President for Cyberspace, and National Coordinator for Security and Counter-terrorism.Prior to his White House years, he served as a diplomat, including as Assistant Secretary of State and held other positions in the State Department and the Pentagon.Since leaving government in 2003, Mr. Clarke has served as an on-air consultant for ABC News for ten years, taught at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government for five years, managed a consulting firm, chaired the Board of Governors of the Middle East Institute, and written books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the national number one bestseller Against All Enemies and Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It.

About Jonathan Davis

Jonathan Davis has narrated numerous audiobooks, receiving widespread critical acclaim for his performances in a variety of genres including an Audie Award nomination in the Thriller/Suspense category for his narration of Michael Gruber's Night of the Jaguar. His work includes The Stranger, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Battlestar Galactica, Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, and Atherton. His performance in Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan won an Audie nomination in 2014. He has also narrated over thirty Star Wars titles, including Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith and Dark Lord. Davis gave voice to Vladimir Lem, one of the central figures in the video game "Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne", which won several Editors Choice Awards.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lance on May 30, 2015

Richard A. Clarke took to heart the old maxim, “Write what you know.” An advisor to three consecutive U.S. presidents, Clarke has penned several nonfiction books about intelligence operations, security policy and terrorism. Bottom line: when Clarke writes about these subjects, he knows whereof he sp......more

Goodreads review by Chris on June 25, 2015

The world is a crazy place and when the treat of nukes is alive and under eminent use, it can make for a thrilling story. While the last book I read from this author, Sting of the Drone, had me on the edge of my seat a few times, this one failed a bit for me. This book had everything I was looking fo......more

Goodreads review by Kasey on January 05, 2016

I received an ARC through LibraryThing in exchange for an honest review. I admit I was excited to be able to read this book. It should have been thrilling and full of excitement. Instead, it took me ages to slog through it. The fact side of things clearly has been researched and is well understood b......more

Goodreads review by Kane on May 06, 2023

This books has all the great aspects of a good action suspense novel that definitely kept me enthralled in the story. There were a few small tangent storylines which were hard to grasp since I didn’t read this book in one sitting that even after a days time, started to not make sense for how small o......more

Goodreads review by Keith on January 01, 2018

A great piece of political fiction Clarke does a wonderful job of making it sound like this kind of thing could happen. This was one of those books I found very hard to put down until I finished it.......more