false 979544 9 <i>Fiction can often tell the truth better than nonfiction. And there is a lot of truth that needs to be told.<br> -Richard A. Clarke</i> <br><br> From the noted counterterrorism expert and #1 bestselling author comes an astonishing fiction debut-a novel of terrorism, warring nations, and political treachery... that could happen tomorrow. <br><br> For three decades, Richard A. Clarke worked in the White House, State Department, and Pentagon. As adviser to four presidents, he traveled throughout the Middle East, visiting palaces, military bases, and intelligence centers, meeting rulers, soldiers, and spies. Some of what he found appeared in Against All Enemies. Much more of it appears here. <br><br> In an extraordinary geopolitical thriller filled with the kind of cutting-edge authenticity only someone on the inside could bring, Clarke takes readers just five years into the future, when forces both in the Middle East and the United States are at work to launch another war. But this time, it could be bigger. This time, it could be nuclear, and spread to Asia and beyond. <br><br> A coup has finally toppled the sheiks of Saudi Arabia, and put a determined but shaky Islamic government in its place. Everywhere, the scent of oil has begun to attract the scorpions, and among them are men in Washington and another capital ready to strike a devil's bargain to fundamentally realign the map of the Middle East. The plans are not the same, however-though some of the planners think they are. Hidden agendas, fierce ambition, conflicting loyalties, faulty intelligence, catastrophic miscalculation-soon the dominos will start to fall, and not even the efforts of a few dedicated men and women on the outside may be able to stop an unstoppable folly. . . . <br><br> Blending exceptional realism with intricate plotting, razor-sharp suspense, and a remarkable cast of characters, <i>The Scorpion's Gate</i> will be one of the most talked-about novels of the year. 964432 25 10 2005 The Scorpion's Gate total:114|5:9|4:31|3:49|2:17|1:8| 114 358 163 24 3 1 false false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Nov 02 00:54:32 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 02 00:56:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 25 16:13:45 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 07:45:11 -0700 2009
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5-10 years into future. Saudis overthrown by Islamic group which creates Islamia in former Saudi Arabia, US out of Iraq, which is as one might expect, struggling along under significant Iranian presence. China increasing demand for oil, attempting to expand into the ME, would like ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun May 10 11:04:51 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 11:07:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 08:21:25 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 13:12:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 13:38:58 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 13:39:08 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 08:45:35 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 08:45:35 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 17:32:07 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 17:36:46 -0700 2007
The end of the book was su...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Mar 08 10:06:45 -0700 2009 Mon Feb 23 13:32:30 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 10:06:45 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Nov 16 00:10:13 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 01:08:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jul 07 20:20:43 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 20:20:43 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 22:56:27 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 23:00:50 -0700 2008 This book is not a great novel story-wise but is very informative as he depicts a future world in which the Saudi family is ousted from Saudi Arabia and a entire new alignment starts t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 29 08:37:27 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 08:37:46 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sat Nov 08 11:31:26 -0800 2008 Wed Jul 16 07:34:43 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 08 11:31:26 -0800 2008 5 0 true false Fri May 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 10:54:20 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 10:56:24 -0700 2008
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