World Without End

✍ Scribed by Mooney, Chris

• Publisher: Atria
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 229 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

His codename is Angel Eyes. His genius: his ability to steal prototype weapons with unimaginable destructive powers, and leave no trace of their whereabouts. The weapons never appear on any black market. They're never used to wage a battle on U.S. soil. And they're never sold to foreign agents. It's as if they simply vanish. But a top-secret CIA operation is one step ahead of the game. They know Angel Eyes' next target. A company in Texas has developed a military combat uniform that renders a soldier virtually invisible. Optical camouflage would arm Angel Eyes with limitless possibilities -- and no one knows that better than CIA operative Steve Conway. But as Conway and his team set the trap for the elusive Angel Eyes, things go terribly wrong. When the trap disintegrates and Conway emerges as the sole survivor, he quickly realizes that in order to retrieve the most valuable weapon ever invented, he'll have to go one-on-one with the most dangerous man in the world. As Conway closes in on the true identity of the killer and his unfathomable motives, he begins to see that there are even darker forces at work. Forces that may emanate from within the CIA itself. Forces that want Conway dead. A hair-raising blend of mystery, manhunt, and terror, "World Without End is electrifying, page-turning suspense by an author destined to join the ranks of the masters.

**

From Publishers Weekly

You can't keep track of the psychopaths without a scorecard in Mooney's second nonstop action thriller (after Deviant Ways). There's Amon Faust, aka Angel Eyes, a semibenevolent terrorist with a germ fetish, who just wants to cleanse the world and start again, but isn't above taking abrupt personal action against an annoying cell phone user. There's Jonathan Cole, a rogue intelligence agent who likes to bite people's ears off. There's Raymond Bouchard, who looks like a powerful Hollywood agent, but really runs a top secret CIA unit called IWAC (Information War Analysis Center) and might just be a Russian mole like Aldrich Ames or Robert Hansen. And there's Misha, a "densely packed three-hundred-pound animal" who is one of the Red Mafiya's most feared enforcers and once "made a woman eat a bowl of what he called homemade Grape-nuts: small rocks and sand mixed with milk." Slightly more sane is hero Steve Conway, an IWAC team leader based in Austin, Tex., where Angel Eyes (or somebody else) is trying to steal the prototype for a neat new invention: an optical camouflage suit that makes the wearer invisible. Equipped with a special Palm Pilot to die for, Conway tries to keep the suit from falling into the wrong hands. Mooney's writing is occasionally clumpy ("He could feel his anger building, the way a car slowly warms up on a frigid New England winter morning"), but his imagination leaves nothing to be desired. Agent, Pam Bernstein.

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From Booklist

Mooney's second novel is an espionage thriller that rings alarmingly true, especially in depicting the ways technology can be perverted to deadly uses. The focus is the Information Warfare Analysis Center, a fictional branch of the CIA that keeps an eye on the proliferation of technology and, occasionally, raids other countries whose technological innovations could pose a security threat to the U.S. The leader of this band of wary men and women is Steve Conway, a typical lone and scary wolf. Flashbacks on the source of his unalterable loneliness, however, offer a trace of humanity and help to engage our interest in this seemingly stock character. The immediate threat facing IWAC is a terrorist bent on finding the secrets to a high-tech invisibility tool for operatives: a combat suit with optical camouflage. Even more bothersome to Conway and his group is the discovery of treachery that threatens all the lives within IWAC. Timely and thought-provoking. Connie Fletcher
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