{"product_id":"the-threat-a-dan-lenson-novel-9781250051233","title":"The Threat: A Dan Lenson Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author \u003ci\u003eof The Circle, The Med, The Gulf, The Passage, Tomahawk, China Sea, Black Storm\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Command \u003c\/i\u003e. . . a heartstopping thriller of danger and conspiracy at the highest levels of command and government. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMedal of Honor winner Commander Dan Lenson wonders who proposed that he be assigned to the White House military staff. It's a dubious honor---serving a president the Joint Chiefs hate more than any other in modern history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLenson reports to the West Wing to direct a multiservice team working to interdict the flow of drugs from Latin America. Never one to just warm a chair, he sets out to help destroy the Cartel---and uncovers a troubling thread of clues that link cunning and ruthless drug lord Don Juan Nuñez to an assault on a nuclear power plant in Mexico, an obscure Islamic relief agency in Los Angeles, and an air cargo company's imminent flight plan across the United States. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLenson has to battle civilian aides and his own distaste for politics to derail a terrorist strike over the Mexican border. His punishment for breaking the rules to do so is to be sent to the East Wing . . . as the military aide carrying the nuclear \"football,\" the locked briefcase with the secret codes for a nuclear strike, for a president he suspects is having an affair with his wife. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd something else is going on beneath the day-to-day turmoil and backstabbing. As his marriage deteriorates and his frustration with Washington builds, Lenson becomes an unwitting accomplice in a dangerous and subversive conspiracy. The U.S. military is responsible for its Commander in Chief's transportation and security. If someone felt strongly enough about it . . . it would be easy for the president to die.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptain David Poyer's twenty-five books make him the most popular living author of American sea fiction. His career included service in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic, Caribbean, Persian Gulf area, and Pacific. \u003ci\u003eThe Threat\u003c\/i\u003e is the ninth book in his continuing novel-cycle of the modern Navy and Marine Corps, following \u003ci\u003eThe Command, Black Storm, China Sea, Tomahawk, The Passage, The Circle, The Gulf, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Med\u003c\/i\u003e (all available as St. Martin's Press mass-market paperbacks). He lives with his wife and daughter on Virginia's Eastern Shore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50333765927186,"sku":"9781250051233","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9c80e3fa-d3da-48ae-9bd2-c3ace6079b7a.jpg?v=1727876726","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-threat-a-dan-lenson-novel-9781250051233","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}