Ergebnis für "Rick" in Politik

Mindset is a sprawling, relentlessly ambitious geopolitical thriller that feels less like listening to a novel and more like watching a major international crisis unfold in real time. Bill Fortin takes the listener deep inside an invisible war being fought through intelligence networks, political institutions, military power and carefully orchestrated deception. From the corridors of Washington to Beijing, Hong Kong, Iran and the Gulf of Oman, the story moves with cinematic intensity, building layer upon layer of conspiracy until the scale of the threat becomes breathtaking.

RICHARD BREWSTER IS A FAST RISING WASHINGTON LOBBYIST in a large law firm with a bright future. But what if he wants to short-circuit the long climb to the top of the profession by creating a made-up client that has a phony problem? What if he uses that client to embarrass the president, to pass irrelevant legislation and arrange Congressional show hearings with professional wrestlers as witnesses?

While on a mission in Jarablus, Syria, Jon Jericho, codename the Hunter, is severely wounded, ending his career as a Special Field Operative for Delta Force. When he returns stateside to begin life anew, he quickly finds himself caught up in a scandal involving the appropriation of documents for an undetectable state-of-the-art ICBM by the Islamic State. But what if Jon Jericho discovers something different?

During military exercises, rogue missiles fire off from a US naval battleship and head directly towards North Korea. Then Air Force Two disappears over the Rocky Mountains. These are mere flexes of muscle from one man who wields the Black Key, a tool capable of controlling nuclear arsenals and weaponry systems. President Jack Meacham's past comes back to haunt him with a single message: "Are you willing to sacrifice your life for the good of the whole?" The president turns to Jon Jericho, a.k.a. The Hunter, to locate and neutralize the man behind the Black Key.

At the turn of this century, a homeless man was allowed to win the lottery. It was hoped that he would change the world for the better, forever. After 12 years, SomeplacElse, his divinely inspired utopian experiment in the sub-urban Arizona desert, has reached critical mass. As Fate would have it, over the next five days the stories of a chronically underemployed baby boomer and a soon-to-be-governor, playboy millionaire will determine the future of this earthly Eden.