The Intercept - Tapa blanda

Wolf is best known as the creator of NBC-TV's Law & Order, the longest-running drama in television history, but the stunning plot twists, graphic violence, and frantic pace of the novel are more reminiscent of a season of 24. . . . Wolf's take on the American media's obsession with celebrity, and the way these characters cope with it and one another, provides some of the book's finest moments. (Publishers Weekly)

Like Law & Order, this book unfolds crisply and intelligently, with a nice mixture of suspense and social observation. . . . Wolf does a shrewd job of setting the stage for his protagonist's next appearance. Storytelling pro Wolf knows how to ratchet up tension and sustain it. (Kirkus Reviews)

Wolf's espionage and police-procedural hybrid combines the brainy suspense and unfiltered social commentary found in the best Law & Order episodes with perfectly calibrated action. . . . Readers will be fascinated with the inner workings of the Intel Division, modeled on the CIA, and by the full-sensory description of New York. . . . Wolf knows his crime, and his first novel is being treated as a major media event. (Booklist)

An adrenaline-fueled thriller debut in the tradition of Three Days of the Condor from the famed creator of TV's Law & Order, featuring NYPD Special Agent Jeremy Fisk, who is New York City's last hope against an ingenious, multi-pronged terrorist attack.

Days before a New York City July 4th celebration and the dedication of the new One World Trade Center building, five passengers and a flight attendant bravely foil the hijacking of a commercial jet. Becoming celebrities overnight, they are thrust into the national media spotlight and dubbed The Six . But New York Police Detectives Jeremy Fisk and Kirsten Gersten members of the secretive Intelligence Division, a well-funded anti-terror unit within the NYPD that has been modeled upon the CIA suspect that the hijacking may have been only a diversion designed to distract authorities so another passenger on board could sneak inside the United States amid the frenzy.

Now that passenger, a Saudi Arabian national, has entered Manhattan and disappeared into thin air. It's up to Fisk to track him down before the weekend is out. But each time he thinks he's found his man, he realizes his opponents are smarter and more agile than any we have faced before, that they have discovered yet another weakness in our defense, and are anticipating Fisk's every move.

With its ingenious plotting surprises and high-wire drama, this is the novel Dick Wolf was born to write and a debut of the highest caliber.