The Zero Hour

A breathtaking escape from a maximum-security prison in South Africa. A beautiful call girl found brutally murdered in Boston. A fugitive American billionaire in Switzerland, obsessed with revenge... So opens Joseph Finder’s electrifying new suspense thriller, The Zero Hour. When an ominous, digitally encrypted telephone call is intercepted by the NSA’s spy satellites high over Switzerland, FBI Special Agent Sarah Cahill — irreverent, outspoken, a brilliant counterterrorism expert, a divorced mother of an eight-year-old boy — is urgently summoned to New York to investigate an imminent terrorist attack on lower Manhattan. Her investigation immediately turns into the desperate pursuit of a highly sophisticated and charismatic terrorist operative, known only by the code name Zero. Sarah must direct an intensive, absolutely secret manhunt for an exceptionally dangerous man whose identity she doesn’t know — even though he knows her intimately. Suddenly Sarah and her young son are plunged headlong into a terrifying labyrinth of intrigue, an elaborate game of cat and mouse that imperils their lives, forcing Sarah to race to uncover a diabolically clever terrorist conspiracy... before the zero hour. Unique in its realism and wealth of riveting insider detail, and with an explosive conclusion of almost unbearable, fasten-your-seal-belt suspense, here is a tour de force of international intrigue certain to be the page-turner of the year.