Man of the Hour

by Peter Blauner

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A terrorist attack casts one man as a hero--and suspect--in this "remarkable" thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author (Stephen King).   Coney Island is a weird place, packed with people from every walk of life, and David Fitzgerald fits in well. An English professor at a tough public school, he works hard to connect with students with whom he has little in common. Sometimes he succeeds; sometimes he fails. But one of his failures is about to become a catastrophe.   A former show more student of David's, Nasser Hamdy, has fallen in with a group of Islamic extremists who practice a cheap kind of jihad, mugging and robbing in the name of their holy war. But when they graduate to bomb-making, David finds himself wrapped up in their scheme--first as a target, and then as a suspect.   This ebook features an illustrated biography of Peter Blauner including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection. show less

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Peter Blauner
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1998

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Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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PS3552 .L3936 .M36 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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