Joshua's Hammer

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Macmillan, Jun 18, 2001 - Fiction - 544 pages
When a one-kiloton Russian nuclear demolition bomb the size of a suitcase ends up in the hands of multimillionaire Osama bin Laden, the entire world sits up and takes notice. And when the United States launches an attack on the terrorist's base of operation in Afghanistan, killing his daughter, retaliation against America is inevitable.

Now, Kirk McGarvey is in for the race of his life, and a race against time. McGarvey has to find out how the bomb will get to the United States, where it will be detonated, and when this, the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, will take place. But not only must McGarvey stop the bomb, he must protect his own daughter and the daughter of the president of the United States for a savage act of retaliation by a man gone mad.
 

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Contents

Chapter ONE
3
Chapter TWO
17
Chapter THREE
25
Chapter FOUR
35
Chapter FIVE
50
SARAH BIN LADEN
65
Chapter SIX
67
Chapter SEVEN
81
Chapter SEVENTEEN
235
Chapter EIGHTEEN
255
Chapter NINETEEN
275
Chapter TWENTY
289
Chapter TWENTYONE
305
Chapter TWENTYTWO
317
Chapter TWENTYTHREE
333
DEBORAH HAYNES TWO MONTHS LATER
359

Chapter EIGHT
93
Chapter NINE
113
Chapter TEN
132
Chapter ELEVEN
148
Chapter TWELVE
166
Chapter THIRTEEN
176
ELIZABETH MCGARVEY
189
Chapter FOURTEEN
191
Chapter FIFTEEN
203
Chapter SIXTEEN
220
Chapter TWENTYFOUR
361
Chapter TWENTYFIVE
377
Chapter TWENTYSIX
399
Chapter TWENTYSEVEN
420
Chapter TWENTYEIGHT
440
Chapter TWENTYNINE
472
THE FINAL MOVES FIVE DAYS LATER
517
Chapter THIRTY
519
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About the author (2001)

David Hagberg was born and raised in Duluth, Minnesota. After graduating from high school, he joined the Air Force and was trained as a cryptographer. During his career, he was stationed in Greenland and in Germany. He studied physics, mathematics and philosophy at the University of Maryland, Overseas Division and the University of Wisconsin. He worked as a cub reporter on the Duluth Herald and News-Tribune and as a news desk editor for the Associated Press. His first novel, Twister, was published in 1975. He has written over 70 suspense novels including The White House, Joshua's Hammer, Desert Fire, and High Flight. He won three Mystery Scene Magazine Best American Mystery awards for Countdown, Crossfire, and Critical Mass. His Sean Flannery novel, The Kremlin Letter, was also nominated for an American Book Award. David Hagberg passed away on September 8, 2019 at the age of 76.