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Nuclear intent

by Don Pendleton

Published 2013317 pagesISBN 978-0-3738-0438-2

"When the President has nowhere else to turn, Stony Man is there to get the job done. An elite group of black ops and cyber tech professionals, the team works under the cloak of stealth to strike before innocent lives are lost. Bound by honor and duty, they are willing to pay the ultimate price to uphold freedom. NUCLEAR INTENT Three agents end up dead and one of Stony Man Farm's own is injured after receiving covert information, sending up a red flag up in the President's office. Someone is planning to ignite hostilities between Israel and Iran by unleashing a nuclear weapon that would force the U.S. to help their ally and go into battle. With the lives of millions at stake, Stony Man's Phoenix Force flies to Yemen to track the bomb before it can launch, while Able Team hunts down the masterminds behind the deadly plot...in the United States."--Publisher description.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Fiction

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Content notes

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Steady pace

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Who it may suit

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Nuclear intentDon Pendleton
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A quick reading snapshot

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Reading lengthA standard-length read317 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2013
Primary categoryFictionExplore similar books below
ISBN-13
978-0-3738-0438-2
Language
English
Edition record
OL26603695M
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Good to know

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

Try this reading approach

Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
  2. Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
  3. What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?

Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.