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The First Hostage
The First Hostage: A J. B. Collins Novel | Joel C. Rosenberg
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What if the Islamic State captured the most valuable hostage in history? “The president of the United States . . . is missing.” With these words, New York Times journalist J. B. Collins, report-ing from the scene of a devastating attack by ISIS terrorists in Amman, Jordan, puts the entire world on high alert. The leaders of Israel and Palestine are critically injured, Jordan’s king is fighting for his life, and the U.S. president is missing and presumed captured. As the U.S. government faces a constitutional crisis and Jordan battles for its very existence, Collins must do his best to keep the world informed while working to convince the FBI that his stories are not responsible for the terror attack on the Jordanian capital. And ISIS still has chemical weapons . . . Struggling to clear his name, Collins and the Secret Service try frantically to locate and res-cue the leader of the free world before ISIS’s threats become a catastrophic reality.
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pradeepdc
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The most intense book I've ever read. Follows just where the third target left and the pace just flows like a good action movie. Joel's writing never ceases to amaze. Not once when I'm reading this book I got distracted and guess what i read this book in one sitting.

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AlastairLuft
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A very fast moving thriller with lots of action. Some of the events are a little far fetched, so it would help to read the prequel (The Third Target) to explain how things start out as it may be hard to suspend disbelief otherwise.