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Triple Cross

by Mark T. Sullivan

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ISBN13: 9780312378509
ISBN10: 0312378505
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The Jefferson Club is a remote, private resort for the super-rich — the buildings, the amenities, and the security are state of the art and beyond compare. Many of the world's wealthiest people — business leaders, entrepreneurs, politicians, celebrities — gather for the most exclusive New Year's Eve party in the world. As expensive champagne flows and multibillion dollar deals are arranged, the unimaginable happens — a highly trained, heavily armed paramilitary force calling itself the Third Position Army breaches the world's best security system and takes everybody hostage.

"Mickey" Hennessey, former U.S. Special Agent, is the head of security for the Jefferson Club. A divorced father of three teenagers, he's spending the holiday with his kids. When the club is attacked, his entire team is wiped out and only he makes it out of the club alive. Now he's outside while his kids are trapped inside, hostages of the Third Position Army who are putting seven of the ten richest men on "trial" for their crimes against humanity, live on the internet for the world to see. While a top FBI rescue team works feverishly to rescue all the hostages, Hennessey is determined to do all he can, to overcome every obstacle, to ensure his children's safety — or die trying.

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"Bestseller Sullivan's first thriller since 2003's The Serpent's Kiss displays his usual knack for setting and scenario. On New Year's Eve during a snowstorm, members of the Third Position Army, a group devoted to fighting corporate greed, seize the Jefferson Club, 'a twelve-thousand-acre ultra-private resort for the super-rich,' in southwest Montana. General Anarchy, the group's leader, and his troops free most of the vacationers, but take the world's six richest men hostage and sequentially put them on trials broadcast over the Internet. Summary executions follow in most cases. The twist: the 14-year-old triplets of the club's security chief, Mickey Hennessy, manage to squirrel themselves away within the resort's back rooms and stealthily work to foil the terrorists. Vile villains, the inevitable romance and the children-in-peril dynamic move the plot efficiently if predictably toward the harrowing finale in the rugged wilderness. This is a solid return for Sullivan, but a place keeper at best." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

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"Triple Cross is crisply written, breathlessly paced, suspenseful, and simultaneously fanciful yet nearly plausible....[A]n almost-addictive page-turner." Booklist

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"Triple Cross is a smart, prescient thriller that makes one wonder why the bottom really dropped out of the stock market. The story snaps and twists like a cracking whip, you can't help but root for Mickey Hennessey and his kids, and I defy you to guess the ending. Mark T. Sullivan has written a super-charged bestseller and surefire motion picture!" Robert Crais

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"Triple Cross crackles with tension and imagination from the first page. A riveting, heart-stopping adventure!" Steve Berry, author of The Venetian Betrayal

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Mark T. Sullivan is the author of several international bestselling thrillers, including the New York Times bestselling Purification Ceremony. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.

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Bev, May 23, 2009 (view all comments by Bev)
Mark T. Sullivan's new anti globalist thriller is a daring work of fiction in our present economic turmoil. This was one book that was hard to put down. Though at first it seemed to follow the usual predictable path of a special interest group out to prove it's point by terrorizing the elite, Mr. Sullivan's book takes a few turns that leaves the reader comparing the author's fiction to the facts of our faltering capitalism today. It's difficult not to become personally involved with the book, when our daily headlines read about corruption and trading that has brought companies to their knees. And just when you think you have it figured out, there's another revelation. The ending is a fantastic work of genius. If you love action/adventure Triple Cross is not to be missed. I absolutely loved this book.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780312378509
Author:
Sullivan, Mark T.
Publisher:
St. Martin's Press
Subject:
Thrillers
Subject:
Hostages
Subject:
Resorts
Subject:
Suspense fiction
Subject:
Rich people
Publication Date:
April 2009
Binding:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Pages:
390
Dimensions:
9.48x6.54x1.09 in. 1.37 lbs.

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