Sandblast

Name: Sandblast
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Al Pessin
ISBN: 9781541435247

Author: Al Pessin

Series: Task Force Epsilon #1

Narrator: Neil Hellegers

Unabridged: 10 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/31/2020

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Espionage

Synopsis

THE ULTIMATE PATRIOT MISSION

The plane carrying the Secretary of Defense is blown out of the sky. The Defense Intelligence Agency greenlights an unprecedented response—Operation: Sandblast.

Pentagon Covert Ops runner Bridget Davenport, must find someone to infiltrate the Taliban, get to the terrorist mastermind, and at all costs stop his plan for an attack more destructive than 9/11. Bridget finds young California-raised Afghan-American Lieutenant Faraz Abdallah. His heritage and military training make him the perfect undercover agent, but no one knows whether he can do the job.

Success depends on Faraz's ability to fool the Taliban's top leaders and become a terrorist, while remembering why he's really there. Bridget believes in him, but it will take everything she has to keep the president and the top brass from pulling the plug . . .

About Al Pessin

Al Pessin is an award-winning thriller author and journalist. As a foreign correspondent based in Hong Kong, Islamabad, Beijing, Jerusalem, and London, he received the National Association of Government Communicators Award and won a Gold Medal at the International Radio Festivals of New York. He's reported from war zones in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Eastern Ukraine, as well as Tahrir Square in Cairo and Independence Square in Kyiv, and was expelled by the Chinese government for reporting on the Tiananmen Massacre. He also covered the Pentagon for six-and-a-half years, and his expertise earned from reporting on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan informs his fiction writing, which illuminates those conflicts and the broader war on terrorism. A member of Mystery Writers of America, Florida Chapter, the Florida Writers Association, and the Authors Guild, Al Pessin lives with his wife in Delray Beach, Florida.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alyssa

An exciting read by an author who obviously knows his subject. Al Pessin establishes a tight balance between action and introspection, with a fascinating study of the psychology of covert operations and going undercover, from the perspective of both the operative and his handlers. With danger and ca......more

Goodreads review by Avanti

Captivating A starkly captivating, behind-the-scenes account of a high-risk mission to infiltrate the Taliban. If you love spine-tingling covert ops, this one's for you.......more

Goodreads review by Nancy

Book One in the Task Force Epsilon series starts with a bang and continues at break-neck speed until the end, when you’ll be reaching for the sequel. Pentagon Covert Ops runner Bridget Davenport vows to gain more intelligence on the Taliban after a bomb destroys an airplane carrying the Secretary of......more

Goodreads review by Carole

I freakin' loved this book! With its concise prose, its precise, authoritative detail, its well-drawn characters, and a plot that hummed, SANDBLAST had everything it needed to keep me on the edge of my seat. Given our current "truce" with the Taliban, a tenuous arrangement now once more under scruti......more