Bibliograph

Overkill, Ted Bell

Type

Label

Overkill, Ted Bell

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Overkill

Oclc number

1032611967

Responsibility statement

Ted Bell

Series statement

An Alex Hawke novel

Summary

After his son is kidnapped while on vacation in the Swiss Alps, counterspy Alex Hawke calls on his trusted colleagues and recruits a top hostage rescue team, but an unexpected threat complicates their missionThe Swiss Alps high above St. Moritz. Alex Hawke and his young son, Alexei, are separated when the tram carrying them to the top of the mountain bursts into flame; Alexei is snatched from the burning cable car by unknown assailants in a helicopter. To save his son, Hawke summons Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard Ambrose Congreve, former U.S. Navy SEAL Stokley Jones, Jr., and recruits a crack Hostage Rescue Team-- elite soldiers of fortune known as "Thunder & Lighting." Meanwhile, above the skies of France, Vladimir Putin is aboard a jet after escaping a bloodless coup in the Kremlin.When two flight attendants collapse and slip into unconsciousness, the Russian leader grabs a parachute, steps out of the plane. and disappears. Are the two events related?

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