Critical Mass, Whitley Strieber
Critical Mass, Whitley Strieber
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Critical Mass

Author: Whitley Strieber

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 12 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/30/2009


Synopsis

What would we do if a nuclear weapon were detonated in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. government suddenly disappeared? What would we do if a terrorist organization announced that it had concealed nuclear weapons in every major Western city and then demanded that the entire planet embrace its twisted brand of Muslim fundamentalism?

In Critical Mass, Whitley Strieber explores this unthinkable but real possibility in a furious story that is almost too terrifying to tell. Nuclear interdiction expert James Deutsch and his Muslim wife, Nabila, struggle to stop an impending nuclear attack on a great American city. Along the way, they delve deep into the hidden world of nuclear terrorism and the experts who strive to contain it, and get a compelling look at the titanic battle within Islam over its own future—fundamentalist and rejecting, or compassionate and life-embracing.

Like Strieber's classics Warday and The Coming Global Superstorm, Critical Mass is torn straight from the dark pages of a very dangerous and very possible future.

About Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber is the bestselling author of more than twenty-five books, including Warday, Nature's End, and The Coming Global Superstorm, which is the basis of the movie The Day After Tomorrow. His books The Grays and 2012: The War for Souls are both being made into films. His Web site, Unknown Country, which explores the edge of science and reality, is the largest of its kind in the world.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Roger on February 26, 2010

Very scary book up until the end, which was completely ridiculous. But the sketches he draws of his nuclear scenario are very believable and makes you realize that other countries, not just terrorists, would profit from an attack on the U.S. that looked like terrorism. But as for the characters and......more

Goodreads review by John (I want my notifications back) on January 15, 2022

This novel was incredibly slow in places. The editor did not do very well with spelling and prose. The ending did give it a nice boost. I have read novels of this author before and this is not her best work.......more

Goodreads review by Matthew on November 03, 2018

Whitley Strieber crafted an intriguing thriller with Critical Mass. The story of a radical, off-the-grid group of Islamic terrorists holding the world to nuclear blackmail, Strieber follows a divorced pair of American government investigators (one of them a Muslim woman) who try to stop attacks on A......more

Goodreads review by Andy Sharples on November 09, 2022

This book is intense. The descriptions of appalling nuclear events are vivid. The devotional thoughts of Muslims, Christians, and atheists(!) are all credibly presented. I was spellbound. As a Christian, I think this book provides insight into the mind of devoted Muslims as they contemplate God and......more

Goodreads review by Sheila on September 11, 2019

The unthinkable happens. An atomic bomb is smuggled into the country and detonated in Las Vegas. Millions are killed in horrible devastation. This plot required inside help at the highest reaches of governement. Can James Deutsch get to the bottom of the plot before more bombs are detonated? A good,......more