Synopses & Reviews
For those chosen to fight terrorism at its source, secrecy is the only imperative a rule Special Agent Jeremy Waller is about to find out the hard way.
Selected for the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team, Agent Waller gives up a life he thought he understood to dive headlong into a violent world of trapdoor truths and shifting alliances where the greatest threat may be his own sense of right and wrong.
He is not alone. Sirad Malneaux a beautiful executive at one of the world's top telecommunications companies turns out to be more adept at murder than marketing. Her true role as a CIA Nonofficial Cover operative will turn a simple assignment into a secret Waller can never divulge.
Jordan Mitchell, CEO of Borders Atlantic and one of the world's richest men, threatens to trade national security for market share by selling a new encryption technology to the Saudis. His shameless love of money is surpassed by just one other passion a passion only Jeremy is capable of discovering.
Senator Elizabeth Beechum, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and front-running presidential candidate, vows to stop Mitchell at any cost. Unfortunately, even her security clearances and insider status cannot protect her from being charged with an unspeakable crime.
Racing from the FBI's secret training rooms to Arabian deserts, from the halls of Congress to the back rooms of Wall Street, and told with a voice only an insider like Christopher Whitcomb could summon, Black lifts the curtain on a world of secret operations, corporate manipulation, and classified technology. It is a world where everything you thought you knew about justice comes to an end a world where Agent Waller discovers that sometimes the only way to get out of the darkness is to head even deeper into the shadows.
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"[C]utting-edge....Imaginative plotting, rock-solid prose, fascinating technology and blasts of furious action will hold readers hostage until the last surprising pages....[A] stellar thriller from an exciting new voice." Publishers Weekly
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"A neatly constructed debut, with all the black op trimmings....A thriller debut that's driven by veracity...tethered to a fraught reality that may well be happening right now." Kirkus Reviews
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"Chris Whitcomb knows about black ops because he has been there. Right at the heart of it. And Black proves again there is no substitute for authenticity."
Frederick Forsyth
Synopsis
A fifteen-year member of the FBI who received its coveted Medal of Bravery, former agent Christopher Whitcomb electrified readers with his breathtaking memoir, Cold Zero. Now his remarkable past and hard-edged prose illuminate his highly acclaimed first thriller... Selected for the FBI's elite Hostage Rescue Team, Special Agent Jeremy Waller is about to fight terrorism at its source-by diving headlong into a violent world of trapdoor truths and shifting alliances. And he'll have company: a beautiful executive more adept at murder than marketing who turns his assignment into a cipher...a ruthless tycoon set on selling a revolutionary technology to terrorists...and a female senator and presidential hopeful charged with an unspeakable crime. Here there is no justice-and only one way out of the darkness: Head even deeper into the shadows...
About the Author
Christopher Whitcomb is the author of Cold Zero, a memoir of his fifteen-year tenure in the FBI, where he served as a sniper on the Hostage Rescue Team, an interrogation instructor at the FBI Academy, and, most recently, the director of intelligence and strategic information for the Critical Incident Response Group. He has appeared on dozens of television and radio programs, written for GQ and the New York Times Magazine, and, as NBC's terrorism analyst, reported on all aspects of the intelligence community. He is a recipient of the FBI's Medal of Bravery for exceptional courage in the line of duty.