The Quadrille

<p>NAME: Patrick Coonan</p><p>CODENAME: Delta</p><p>OPERATION: Red Mushroom</p><p>ANNOTATIONS: A breakdown in the strategic balance during the last decade of the Cold War prompts the Kremlin into launching an elaborate plan to insert a dirty bomb in the island of Manhattan and blow it off the face of the Earth in in the event of nuclear war. Marlon Berkowitz a retired special forces colonel is selected by the U.S. State Department of Defense to shape and lead The Quadrille a shadow-network of expendable undercover operatives tasked with the elimination of all Soviet nuclear saboteurs operating on U.S. soil. The colonel's first recruit is a man he is most familiar with; Sgt Major Patrick Coonan a young U.S. Ranger sniper who no matter how many kill missions he is given always comes back for more.</p><p><br></p><p>A SOBERING FAST-PACED THRILLER IN THE STYLE OF IAN FLEMING'S 007 AND DONALD HAMILTON'S MATT HELM.</p>