David Ricciardi, Author of "Black Flag"

Описание: CIA officer Jake Keller faces stakes that are very high and very personal in the latest electrifying thriller from the author of "Rogue Strike". After years of relative calm, piracy has returned to the high sea. But the days of AK-47s and outboard engines are over. The new pirates hit like a SEAL team. Highly trained, and using cutting edge technology, they make sure their victims are never heard from again. Ships and crews are vanishing at a staggering rate. As the threat to international shipping grows, U.S. authorities become determined to find the source of this new danger. Jake Keller has a plan—to lure the pirate mastermind out of hiding by infiltrating his organization—but it’s a dangerous gambit, made more so by Jake’s personal involvement with the beautiful heiress to a Greek shipping fortune and an ulterior agenda coming out of CIA headquarters. As the threats close in from all sides, Jake finds himself faced with a familiar choice: back off or go on the offensive. His fate, and the fate of a nation, hang on his decision.

A keen outdoorsman, David Ricciardi is a certified scuba rescue diver and a former ski instructor. He has backpacked through the mountains of the western United States and Alaska, and once woke up for a 2 AM watch aboard a sailboat only to discover that it was headed the wrong way through the Atlantic sea lanes in heavy weather, with one of the crews suffering from hypothermia. "Black Flag" is his third novel.