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  • The Day Before Midnight

  • A Novel
  • Written by: Stephen Hunter
  • Narrated by: Philip Bosco
  • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
  • 2.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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The Day Before Midnight

Written by: Stephen Hunter
Narrated by: Philip Bosco
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Publisher's Summary

The countdown to midnight begins on a winter dawn.

In Maryland, welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban home and whisked to the South Mountain MX missile site: a top-secret nuclear complex now taken over by paramilitary terrorists. Their mission: to unleash 35 megatons of nuclear doom in a devastatingly brilliant plot that threatens global disaster. All that stands between the Uzi-armed commandos and the launch button is a half-ton titanium block. They want Jack Hummel to cut through it.

But even as his torch burns closer to the launch key, a Delta Force veteran and a think-tank defense wizard are hard at work, trying to get inside South Mountain by defeating their own super-security systems, straining to stop the clock¿and Armageddon.
©1989 Stephen Hunter (P)2004 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.
Espionage Suspense Literature & Fiction
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"A smoothly believable race-against-time thriller with frightening plausibility." (Publishers Weekly)

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Not the whole book

This is some kind of abridged version, not the full story. That would be fine if it was advertised as such. The performance is quite good (imho). Shame that the full version does not seem to be available on Audible.

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