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The Kill Zone

McGarvey #9 / 27
by David Hagberg
The Kill Zone (McGarvey #9) by David Hagberg
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The President of the United States has appointed Kirk McGarvey interim director of the CIA while his nomination winds its way through Congressional hearings. But what should have been the culmination of McGarvey's career, has activated a twenty-year-old Russian plot sponsored by his former archenemy, General Baranov. Now, McGarvey is in the Kill Zone. He finds himself part of a plot that does know the Cold War is over, a plot that comes at McGarvey full throttle--from the grave of an enemy McGarvey had buried decades before.

Step by inexorable step, the assassin—a sleeper agent for all these years—is awakened from a holding state of mind. Brainwashed by KGB doctors to pull the trigger, the killer has unknowingly waited for a signal that has finally arrived.

And as the story races toward its breathtaking climax, it's becoming clearer to McGarvey and his associates that the killer is someone within his inner circle.

A colleague or a friend.

Somebody very close.

Is there anyone McGarvey can trust when trust itself can kill him?

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Release date: 2002

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David Hagberg

David Hagberg is an American novelist best known for his techno-thrillers featuring super-spy Kirk McGarvey. Hagberg has also written numerous thrillers under the pseudonym Sean Flannery. Hagberg's style has been described as a cross between Tom Clancy and Ian Fleming. His thrillers generally feature a combination of technical detail, timely plots and super-spy heroics that are sometimes almost prophetic in their accuracy. In the novel Joshua's Hammer, for example, written in 2000, Hagberg gives a chilling account of a mega-terrorist plot by Osama bin Laden to kill thousands of Americans on their home soil, published a full year before the World Trade Center Attacks.

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Like many "cloak-and-dagger" novelists, Hagberg has a professional background in espionage, having spent his stint of military duty as a cryptographer for U.S. Air Force Intelligence.

Hagberg apprenticed as a spy writer by contributing more than 20 "work-for-hire" entries in the Nick Carter – Killmaster series of espionage novels between 1976 and 1987. He also wrote "work-for-hire" novels based on the Flash Gordon comic strip.

His work has been well-received by his colleagues in the crime writing community. Three of his novels, The Kremlin Conspiracy, False Prophets, and Broken Idols, were nominated for Edgars by the MWA in the "Best Paperback Original Novel" category. Three of his McGarvey novels, Countdown, Crossfire, and Critical Mass, won American Mystery Awards, given by Mystery Scene Magazine, for "Best Spy Novel."

Hagberg wrote a short story titled "Genesis" in Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary.

McGarvey

McGarvey consists of twenty-seven primary books, and includes two additional books that complement the series but are not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

Without Honor (McGarvey #1)
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Countdown (McGarvey #2)
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Crossfire (McGarvey #3)
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Critical Mass (McGarvey #4)
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High Flight (McGarvey #5)
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Assassin (McGarvey #6)
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White House (McGarvey #7)
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Joshua's Hammer (McGarvey #8)
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The Kill Zone (McGarvey #9)
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Soldier of God (McGarvey #10)
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Allah's Scorpion (McGarvey #11)
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Dance with the Dragon (McGarvey #12)
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The Expediter (McGarvey #13)
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The Cabal (McGarvey #14)
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Abyss (McGarvey #15)
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Castro's Daughter (McGarvey #16)
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Blood Pact (McGarvey #17)
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Retribution (McGarvey #18)
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The Shadowmen (McGarvey #18.5)
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The Fourth Horseman (McGarvey #19)
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24 Hours (McGarvey #19.5)
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End Game (McGarvey #20)
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Tower Down (McGarvey #21)
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Flash Points (McGarvey #22)
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Face Off (McGarvey #23)
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First Kill (McGarvey #24)
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McGarvey (McGarvey #25)
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Gambit (McGarvey #26)
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Traitor (McGarvey #27)
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