For all of you fans of the Law and Order franchise, Dick Wolfe has written a fast paced hard hitting novel of intrigue, suspense, and planned terrorism. THE INTERCEPT. Set in New York it brings together all the alphabet soup acronymed agencies who are fighting terrorism to track and prevent an act of terror. The problem is that they know some of the terrorists but not all and they do not know what exactly is planned or where or when. The feds want to let the terrorists goeas far as they can and learn as much as possible before shutting them down, but the New York contingent wants to shut them down as quickly as possible. So some subterfuge is present. The hero cop is a world weary NewYorker who is paired with a female investigator with whom he becomes involved. The story revolves around the seven passengers of an incoming airliner who avert a highjacking attempt and the way they become instant heroes. The woman operative is assigned to the safety detail of the seven and our hero is on the hunt for the terrorists. We get to see al Quaeda sleepers in the US as well as foreign spies and terrorists. The seven become media darlings and are appropriated for supposed security reasons by the government. As time draws down and the hunt closes in it is evident that that all is not going to end perfectly. And all is not what it seems. A sequel would not be amiss
It is a good read and a fast read. I kept trying to cast it as a movie or a TV show as I read.
