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Terry Adams

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A retired, married father of three, the 1960's hippie is always near the surface despite a working life spent in industry and commerce and lecturing in accounting. I enjoy foreign travel, sailing and choral singing. I have had five westerns published but the book listed here is my first major work of fiction.

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The Qattara Project

Terry Adams

Islamic terrorists try to hijack nukes sent from the Ukraine to Egypt for use in an undercover civil engineering project.


Sexy nuclear scientist Candy Ascherberg is wounded when Islamic terrorists attack tourists visiting Egypt. Her only relative, billionaire Arnold Hammond, plans to flood the Qattara Depression and create an inland sea 175 miles long and 90 miles wide. Development of the surrounding region will provide millions of jobs for the Egyptian poor who will then, he hopes, reject the Islamists' ideology of hate. Hammond has terminal cancer. To get the job done before he dies he decides to use nukes. Leo Crane, Candy Ascherberg and a group of ex-soldiers secretly buy thirty-two nuclear warheads in the Ukraine and ship them to Egypt via Odessa. The ukrainian mafia tries twice to hijack the nukes but Leo and his men fight them off. Islamist gunmen attack Leo's ship. Fighting rages along the corridors and down in the holds. Eventually the terrorists are defeated. Leo and his men plant the nukes in the specified locations in the Western Desert. Leo and Candy are attacked by Egyptian jihadi gunmen. Leo leads them deep into the desert and with Candy’s help, kills them all. The FBI try to stop the project - too late. Hammond dies, but his dream has become a reality.

 

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(rafica_4ndaye@yahoo.com) My name is rafica i saw your profile toda....

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Hello Mr. Adams: "An Unfinished Innocence" explores adulterous alc....

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Hi Terry, Couple of books to consider for your shelf now 'Behind t....

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Terry. I see your book is climbing. I remember reading some of it a c....

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I wrote 572 days ago

Hi no comments on text and style so far - I will need to read much more than the two chapters I have done before I dare do that - but I have put it on both my watchlist and my browser's favourites bar so I can dip in and out whenever i get a spare minute or thirty (which, I expect, is the way most... view book

I wrote 573 days ago

This is great writing. Real people speaking straight from the gut. Even the sex is free of cliches. Backed with pleasure. view book

I wrote 583 days ago

Hi I agree with the last writer in everything but his suggestion you repackage it as adult fantasy. It should be easier to sell it to the children's market and if it becomes a success as it should it will crossover quickly enough. Backed. Terry Adams (the qattara project) view book

I wrote 583 days ago

Dear Ed, If you are speaking in the 1st person it shouldn't be necessary to use explanatory endings such as 'I spat'. Plus I agree with the previous comment re plotting. Tighten it up if you can. All the best though. Terry. view book

I wrote 595 days ago

Hi I like this. It moves well and the tone is spot on. I just wonder whether there is a commercial market for it. It reminds me of Reginald Hill's Joe Sixsmith novels, which are good in their way but probably only got published on the back of his Dalziel & Pascoe's. I would love to be proved wrong,... view book

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