- Presidents, Fiction, Military bases, Schofield, shane (fictitious character), fiction
It is America's most secret base, hidden deep in the Utah desert, an Air Force installation known only as Area 7. And today it has a visitor: the President of the United States. He has come to inspect Area 7, to examine its secrets for himself. But he's going to get more than he bargained for on this trip. Because hostile forces are waiting inside... Among the President's helicopter crew, however, is a young Marine. He is quiet, enigmatic, and he hides his eyes behind a pair of silver sunglasses. His name is Schofield. Call-sign: Scarecrow. Rumour has it, he's a good man in a storm. Judging by what the President has just walked into, he'd better be...
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Contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Matthew Reilly
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 492
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Paperbacks, Chivers press, Bolinda Publishing
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780754018117
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“THE THREE HELICOPTERS THUNDERED OVER THE ARID DESERT plain, booming through the early morning silence.”
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