Böcker av Tom Avitabile

A chemical engineer sets in motion a horrendous explosion killing hundreds of commuters and himself.Hollywood's hottest sex symbol assassinates a sitting senator.A grandmother stages a sophisticated attack on a train causing massive damage.An airplane full of Silicon Valley's brightest is blown up while refueling.A series of deadly, unrelated events or the unlikely start of an insidious new terror network? As Science Advisor to the President, William ¿Wild Bill¿ Hiccock is tasked with assembling a team to identify and stop the threat, whether homegrown or foreign. His team ¿ a retired Navy admiral, a wise-guy computer hacker sprung from federal prison, and his ex-wife, a leading behavioral psychologist ¿ must identify and destroy their elusive adversary who always seems to be a step ahead.

It always starts out as routine, even when you are only doing it while your husband is deployed at sea. Even if it began as a safe, easy way to make enough cash to start a family. Even if there was no way you would ever get stuck doing it full time... after all, that's why you retired from the FBI.But then they killed off your prime witnesses all over the globe, erased all their digital fingerprints from a Wall Street hedge fund, blew up your office, tried to blow up St. Pats and, with unlimited funding from financial plays in the stock market, launched the biggest, most devastating attack ever directed against a city. One that no one saw coming. An unthinkable event that would have ramifications for the next one hundred years or more.And all you wanted to do was go home to Hawaii and coach high school soccer¿Welcome to former FBI agent, Brooke Burrell's life. Her cushy assignment turns into a countdown to mega-death and destruction, keeping her and her hand-picked group of experts guessing what, where, and when the attack will be ¿ right up until zero hour.GIVE US THIS DAY is a book with enough plausible authenticity that it will keep readers guessing what will happen next, whether they are in their living rooms or in government offices.

An ex-FBI agent must solve how to save the plant from explosive terror in this action-packed, international political thriller. When the smallest imagined particle of matter threatens to destroy all that matters, science and religion collide on the world stage and within the corridors of power. Presidential Science Advisor William ';Wild Bill' Hiccock and his top-secret Quarterback Operations Group (QuOG) has already faced down some of the most sinister high-tech rivals imaginable. Now they must face one that can eliminate all life on Earth in an instant. The God Particle is a super-kinetic thriller that pits brains, religion, political power, and common humanity against the onslaught of extremely dangerous, narrowly focused scientific exploration into the fabric of creation, complete with a plot to shoot down one of the president's helicopters. Fringe religious groupsbut not the usual suspectsengage in terror. Ugly espionage is set against the beauty of the Cote D'Azur. The romance of Paris offsets the grit of Boston's South of Roxbury while the Euro-pop discos of Switzerland punctuate the quest. In the end it comes down to one question: Can former FBI agent Brooke Burrell, now QuOG's lead operative, choose between her personal and professional life in time to solve the puzzle and stop it all? Praise for The Eighth Day ';Frighteningly realistic. Most of Washington really works this way. Homeland Security had better read this one and take corrective action.' Michael Skol, US Ambassador ';Awesome. I could not go to sleep last night because I couldn't put it down!' Donna Hanover, WOR Radio 710