The Golden Hour, Todd Moss
The Golden Hour, Todd Moss
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The Golden Hour

Author: Todd Moss

Narrator: Piter Marek

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/04/2014


Synopsis

An extraordinary thriller debut of twenty-first-century espionage, by a former deputy assistant secretary of state who "knows where all the bodies are buried-literally" (W.E.B. Griffin). The Golden Hour: In international politics, the hundred hours following a coup, when there is still a chance that diplomacy, a secret back channel, military action-something-might reverse the chain of events. As the top American diplomat for West Africa, Todd Moss saw a great deal about how diplomacy and politics actually work. But as he shows us, the results aren't always pretty. When Judd Ryker is appointed director of the new State Department Crisis Reaction Unit, he figures he has a mandate to help the United States respond more quickly to foreign crises, but he hasn't reckoned with the intense State, Defense, Pentagon, White House, and CIA infighting and turf battles he would face. Then comes the coup in Mali. It is his chance to prove that his theory of the Golden Hour actually works-but in the real world, those hours move very, very quickly indeed, and include things he'd never even imagined. As Ryker races from Washington across Europe to the Sahara Desert, he finds that personalities, loyalties, everything he thought he knew, begin to shift and change beneath his feet-and that friends and enemies come in many forms.

Reviews

This was a fast and fun read. I’ve not read his books, but I am thinking this might appeal to Tom Clancy readers in its blend of action and politics. I have SEEN “The Hunt for Red October”, however, and I will say that I don’t think the hero here, Judd Ryker, is exactly Jack Ryan. But hey, they have......more

Goodreads review by Elliott

I wanted to like this book. I really did. I love political/military thrillers, and I especially love stories set in Africa. But this thriller by Todd Moss just missed the mark. I kept thinking that something was going to happen to bring the plot together, something that made sense to me as the reade......more