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24 Hours

McGarvey #19.5 / 27
by David Hagberg
24 Hours (McGarvey #19.5) by David Hagberg
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The seventeen-year-old daughter of the widowed President of the United States is kidnapped from Georgetown University outside Washington, DC.

A ransom note mysteriously appears on the president's desk in his private study off the Oval Office. The demand is as simple as it is impossible: The US must immediately begin a ground war in Syria. If the President doesn't comply within 24 hours, his only daughter will be publicly executed.

The terrorists believe that pitting the U.S. against Russian troops in a ground war will allow ISIS to decisively create its Caliphate, from which it would be free to wage war against the entire world. The Middle East would sink into a new and barbarous century.

Former CIA assassin Kirk McGarvey gets the call in the middle of the night for an emergency meeting with the President of the United States. His mission: find the President’s daughter and return her safely to the White House.

The problem: He has only twenty-four hours to do it.

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Release date: July 19, 2016

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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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