Showing results by author "Spencer Hawke"

The invading Roman Army has one goal, the complete destruction of Jerusalem and all its people. One boy from the desert in Negev, a shepherd’s son, is bullied by his friends and ridiculed by his tribal equals. But he has a dream, a dream that haunts him every night. He wants to learn to read and write. To become a scribe. That way when he is a tribal elder no one would dare bully his children. So starts his journey through unimaginable misery and cruelty to plan the most daring intrigue ever.

This espionage and spy thriller pits government assassin Ari Cohen and ex-Navy SEAL David Gray in a political conspiracy against their long-despised rival the Raven, an ex-mob hit man. The terrorist's plot? A cyberattack on the American dollar. 

Hawke's writing excels, especially during the book's many action sequences. The dialogue in the novel is both crisp and tense but also humorous at times. Hawke spins his international counter-terrorism tale at a breakneck pace starting with the 1999 shoot down of a US super-secret stealth military jet in Bosnia and a terrorist plot to use the plane's technology for nefarious purposes.