Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Release Date: June 27, 2023
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Source: Library
Genre: Thrillers / Historical
From New York Times bestselling author of the Cotton Malone
series comes a thrilling, action-packed historical adventure that sends
Luke Daniels on an international manhunt for the truth about the
assassination of President John Kennedy.
Luke Daniels is in
London, between assignments with the Magellan Billet, when he receives a
frantic call from an old friend. Jillian Stein is in trouble. She
made a mistake and now her life may be in danger. She needs Luke’s
help. Immediately. Racing to Belgium Luke quickly finds that she was
right. A shadow team of highly-trained operatives are there on the
hunt. Intervening, he finds himself embroiled in a war between two
determined sides — one seeking the truth, the other trying to escape the
past — a war that has already claimed one life and is about to claim
more.
Thomas Rowland is a Washington insider, a kingmaker,
problem-solver, but also a man with a past. For him everything turns
with what happened on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. What history
has recorded is wrong. There is more to the story, much more, and
Thomas Rowland is at the center of that terrible reality. But forces
are working against him, and Rowland will do anything to keep the world
from learning what actually happened on that fateful day, including
killing Luke, Jillian and anyone else who might be a threat.
In
a race from Belgium, to Luxembourg, to the bayous of Louisiana and the
Wyoming wilderness, to a final confrontation in the Bahamas, Luke
Daniels confronts a series of shocking truths which not only rewrite
history but will forever change his own life — as he comes face to face
with the ninth man.
The 9th Man, by co-authors Steve Berry & Grant Blackwood, is the first installment in the author's Luke Daniels series. Berry's co-written novel features a character from his Cotton Malone series, Luke Daniels, a thirty-something Magellan Billet (one of the premier organizations within the US intelligence system) agent Malone has jokingly nicknamed Frat Boy. The Ninth Man will bring in fans from Berry, Blackwood, and Cotton Malone, who will be delighted by this new adventure.
Luke Daniels is an investigator, not an assassin, nor has he had to kill anyone. He's between assignments when he receives a frantic call from an old friend. Jillian Stein, former Marine, night fighter, and trained in combat, is in trouble. She made a mistake and now her life may be in danger. She needs Luke’s help. Immediately. Luke travels to Genappe, Belgium, where Jillian has just survived a home invasion attack that killed her grandfather.
Each of them realized that this was no unconnected incident and that whoever attacked them was looking for something. It appears that Jillian's grandfather may hold the real truth about one of the darkest days in US History; November 22, 1963 and a gun that may have been used to kill a President. Intervening, he finds himself embroiled in a war between two determined sides; one seeking the truth, the other trying to escape the past; a war that has already claimed one life and is about to claim more.
He is turned on to a second gentleman named Ray Simmons who lives in Louisiana. Though Simmons
had already passed, he had left behind probably the largest collection
of books written about the JFK Assassination that Luke Daniels had ever
seen. In a race from Belgium, to Luxembourg, to the bayous of Louisiana and
the Wyoming wilderness, to a final confrontation in the Bahamas, Luke
confronts a series of shocking truths which not only rewrite
history but will forever change his own life as he comes face to face
with the ninth man.
Thomas Rowland is a Washington insider, a kingmaker, problem-solver, but also a man with a past. For him everything turns with what happened on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. What history has recorded is wrong. There is more to the story, much more, and Thomas Rowland is at the center of that terrible reality. But forces are working against him, and Rowland will do anything to keep the world from learning what actually happened on that fateful day, including killing Luke, Jillian and anyone else who might be a threat.
*Thoughts* Even though there have been hundreds of conspiracy theories, and movies, and books, the truth has never been revealed thanks to the US Government's (CIA) refusal to release all the documents Americans need to know the truth. Maybe in the near future that will happen when all of Kennedy's relatives are gone. I think the authors treat the historical event with respect, and they don't overly try to change history. I hate when people try to rewrite history.
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