After the Rain by Chuck Logan
	List Price:   $7.99 Unit Price:   $6.39 You Save:   $1.60 (20%) ISBN-10:   0060570199 ISBN-13:   9780060570194 Publisher:   HarperCollins; HarperTorch Category:   Middle School Pub. Date:   June 2005 Pages:   432 Format:   Paperback; Mass Market paperback
Subjects
JOURNALISTS_FICTION MINNESOTA_FICTION FICTION_THRILLERS BROKER, PHIL (FICTITIOUS CHARACTER)_FICTION
Description/Notes
Chuck Logan called 'one of the best new thriller writers' by the Chicago Tribune, is the author of six novels, including Vapor Trail, Absolute Zero, and The Big Law. A veteran of the war in Vietnam, he lives in Stillwater, Minnesota, with his wife and daughter. You can visit his website at www.chucklogan.com. Soon a panel truck will cross from one side of the U.S.-Canada divide to the other, the driver and his terrible cargo slipping undetected across the longest undefended border in the world. An effective, unorthodox cop before his 'retirement,' Phil Broker is racing north to the heart of the Cold War nuclear missile belt-and heading toward an inevitable confrontation with his long-estranged wife, Nina Pryce. A tough, decorated veteran of the first Gulf War and renegade anti-terrorist operative, Nina has dragged their daughter, Kit, into a potentially explosive situation, and Broker is desperate to get his child out. But something even more terrifying is taking shape in this isolated corner of North Dakota: the mad dream of a damaged psychopath determined to wash a hated nation in the blood of countless innocents. And for Broker, for Nina, for America, the clock is ticking down-because doomsday is closer than anyone imagines. An effective, unorthodox cop before his 'retirement,' Phil Broker is racing north to the heart of the Cold War nuclear missile belt -- and heading toward an inevitable confrontation with his long-estranged wife, Nina Pryce. A tough, decorated veteran of the first Gulf War and renegade anti-terrorist operative, Nina has dragged their daughter, Kit, into a potentially explosive situation, and Broker is desperate to get his child out. But something even more terrifying is taking shape in this isolated corner of North Dakota: the mad dream of a damaged psychopath determined to wash a hated nation in theblood of countless innocents. And for Broker, for Nina, for America, the clock is ticking down -- because doomsday is closer than anyone imagines. From the author of 'Absolute Zero' comes his most explosive thriller yet, which reunites Phil Broker with estranged wife (and Delta Force powerhouse) Nina Pryce in a hair-raising tale of terrorism and borderland security. Logan's most explosive thriller yet reunites Phil Broker with estranged wife (and Delta Force powerhouse) Nina in a hair-raising tale of terrorism and borderland security. At the end of VAPOR TRAIL, Phil Broker learns that his daughter Kit and wife Nina-a Delta Force operator-are holed up and in trouble in Langdon, North Dakota. He arrives to find that Nina is running a renegade undercover operation involving smuggling across the wide open Canadian border-and that the freight isn't illegal cigars or whiskey, but the components for a potentially catastrophic terrorist plot. Broker is forces into action when the op goes away and Nina gets taken hostage by a mercenary sociopath with a chilling plan.