After the Rain

✍ Scribed by Chuck Logan

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2005;2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 304 KB
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0060570199

✦ Synopsis

From Publishers Weekly

Logan's last two books featuring Phil Broker have emphasized extreme weather conditions: Phil broiled in Vapor Trail, froze in Absolute Zero, and incessant rain is the key to this fifth thriller in an outstanding series. Phil's estranged wife, army Maj. Nina Pryce, is back in the U.S. and involved in a high stakes antiterrorist mission with crusty old ex-Special Forces Col. Holland Wood and lesbian warrior Jane Singer. Their lead is a name, Ace Shuster, who turns out to be a likable ne'er-do-well North Dakotan who runs a small liquor-smuggling operation. Nina's assignment is to romance Ace until he spills the beans. Philex-cop, ex-soldier and all-around knight-errantis drawn in because it's a righteous cause, and Nina still looks pretty damn good to him. The pace is rather stately until the rain stops, then the plot picks up speed until all concerned are racing toward a confrontation involving the destruction of a large chunk of American real estate and the citizens thereon. It's an unbeatable combination: a smart, well-honed plot, fascinating characters (including a Lebanese sleeper spy, various local smugglers and a sexually deviant psycho-killer) and a writer with an original voice and the prose skills to tie it all together.
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Review

Tantalizing....A frighteningly plausible thriller, one that hits close to home. (Denver Post )

The book simply cant be put down....Thrillers dont get any more up to date than this nail-biter. (Tampa Tribune )

Hard-edged and gripping ... The nuclear plot is ingenious and its final countdown is a nail-biter. (Washington Post )

A hair-raising yarn thats complicated, textured and artfully paced, building to a climax thats almost unthinkable. (Minneapolis Star Tribune )

Chuck Logan at his adventurous best, creating vivid characters and putting them in nail-biting action. (St. Paul Pioneer Press )

Logan knows how to write international intrigue and suspense. (Kansas City Star )

Great reading -- a thriller that looks straight into the eye of the post 9/11 landscape, and never blinks. (John Sandford, author of #1 New York Times bestseller NAKED PREY )

A fast-paced action thriller [and] a credible and terrifying story. (Fargo Forum )

Suspenseful [and] forceful.... Logan is a crafty storyteller. (Philadelphia Inquirer )

If you like your thrillers hard [and] tough then Chuck Logans books ... cry out for addition to your bookbag. (Chicago Tribune )

An unbeatable combination: a smart, well-honed plot, fascinating characters and a writer with [the] skills to tie it together. (Publishers Weekly )