Anthony J. Tata. (2019). Dark Winter. Pinnacle Books.

Anthony J. Tata. 2019. Dark Winter. Pinnacle Books.

Anthony J. Tata, Dark Winter. Pinnacle Books, 2019.

Anthony J. Tata. Dark Winter. Pinnacle Books, 2019.

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   • bioText: Brigadier General Anthony J. Tata, U.S. Army (Retired), is the national bestselling author of Direct Fire, Reaper Ghost Target, Besieged (a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Best Mystery/Thriller of 2017), Three Minutes to Midnight, Foreign and Domestic, and the Threat series. During his active duty military career, he commanded combat units in the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and the 10th Mountain Division. His last combat tour was in Afghanistan in 2007 where he earned the Combat Action Badge and the Bronze Star Medal. He is a frequent foreign policy guest commentator on Fox News, CNN, and One America News Network's Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler. Previously, General Tata served as the Secretary of Transportation of North Carolina, Superintendent of Schools for Wake County Public School System, and Chief Operating Officer of Washington, DC, Public Schools.
     Brigadier General Tata donates a portion of his earnings to the USO Metro DC, the North Carolina Heroes Fund, and the Michael Murphy Foundation.
     
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The world order is being hacked to pieces . . .

By the time anyone realizes what's happening, it is too late. A dark network of hackers has infiltrated the computers of the U.S. military, unleashing chaos across the globe. U.S. missiles strike the wrong targets. Defense systems fail. Power grids shut down. Within hours, America's enemies move in. Russian tanks plow through northern Europe. Iranian troops invade Iraq. North Korea destroys Seoul and fires missiles at Japan.

Phase 1 of ComWar is complete.

Enter Jake Mahegan and his team. Their mission: locate the nerve center of ComWar—aka Computer Optimized Warfare—and shut down the operation through any means necessary. There are three ComWar headquarters, each hidden deep underground in Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Each contains a human biometric nuclear key that the team must capture to shut down the imminent nuclear strikes. Splitting up the team is Mahegan's only chance to prevent the next wave of cyber attacks. But even that won't stop the sleeper cell agents—here in the United States . . .

When Phase 2 ends, World War III begins.

"Tata's books are absolute rollercoaster rides . . . he is in the top tier of thriller writers working today."
—Mark Greaney, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect

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   • source: Booklist STARRED REVIEW on Dark Winter
   • content: "Tata has taken elements of the world's political stage and mixed them brilliantly with a virtual treatise on cybersecurity. Throw in a charismatic villain steering the game, and you have all the elements in place for a classic, high-adventure technothriller. The open-ended conclusion will leave readers hanging, but that will only make them wish that Tata could please write faster. This is the best thriller yet by the former brigadier general."
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   • source: Jack Carr, author of THE TERMINAL LIST
   • content: "Loved the book. An all too real look into U.S. cyber-security vulnerabilities. Be warned and get ready, General Tata may have predicted a future attack!"
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   • source: Glenn Beck
   • content: Praise for A.J. Tata's Jake Mahegan Series:
     
     "A riveting look at the terrifying reality of domestic terrorism."
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   • source: Newt Gingrich
   • content: "A must read for fans of thriller fiction."
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   • source: Richard North Patterson, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
   • content: "Tata writes with a GRIPPING AND GRITTY authority."
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   • source: Brad Thor, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
   • content: "ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC...PULSE-POUNDING."
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   • source: Larry Bond, New York Times Bestselling Author
   • content: "General Tata's story mixes high-threat combat with an intriguing and surprising mystery. Vivid and complex characters make this a fascinating read."
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     August 20, 2018
     In Tata’s rousing fifth Jake Mahegan novel (after 2017’s Direct Fire), Ian Gorham, the genius founder of Manaslu, Inc., which dominates the “social media, retail distribution, and advertising marketplace,” plans to take over the world by starting WWIII and nuking the U.S. into oblivion. Gorham, aided by sidekick/bodyguard Dax Stasovich and brilliant code-writer hacker Shayne, kicks off the war by killing North Korea’s leader, goading the U.S. Army into an artillery battle with the Russians in Europe, and lobbing a nuke into downtown Tokyo. Meanwhile, Jake is spending quality time on a North Carolina island with girlfriend Army Ranger Cassie Bagwell when they’re called back to duty to try and make sense of the mayhem that’s erupting around the world. Tata excels at jet-fueled action and scenes in which the principals discuss fascinating global war strategy, but many military thriller fans will wish that he devoted less space to Jake’s romance with Cassie and more to what Jake does best: figuring out how to kill bad guys. Agent: Scott Miller, Trident Media Group.

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     September 1, 2018
     Responding to a U.S. military computer-system failure, an elite group of American operatives must prevent pending nuclear strikes.Retired U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Tata (Direct Fire, 2017, etc.) brings back Jake Mahegan for another realistic, high-stakes military adventure. As Jake is embracing a growing romantic connection with his love interest and fellow highly skilled operator, Cassie, a new threat emerges on the horizon. This threat comes in the form of Ian Gorham, president and CEO of Manaslu, a cutting-edge company named after "the treacherous Nepalese summit that few dared to climb"; Manaslu's "search engine was faster than Google, the social media connections had surpassed Facebook, and the retail endeavor had rapidly overtaken Amazon." Now that he's beaten all the other tech companies, Gorham has turned his attention to a bigger project: remaking the world into a "global...unified" society. But first, he'll have to "burn the world to the ground, so that he could rebuild it." Using financing and resources from his company, Gorham has created an advanced defense laboratory and a private security force. With this infrastructure in place, he initiates the finely tuned ComWar, or Computer Optimized Warfare, by hacking into the central control systems of Russia, Iran, and North Korea. ComWar starts by shutting down power grids and closing Wi-Fi hot spots and leads to artillery strikes and artificial intelligence attacks, among other atrocities. While some of the details of this plot are a little vague, the general direction of the narrative is believable, and the main characters, while lacking development, get into copious amounts of action.A very readable and contemporary military action story.

     COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      Starred review from September 15, 2018
      Power and wealth could destroy the world in Tata's latest thriller. Jake Mahegan and his team of operatives are the best of the best, but how do you battle an opponent with money, connections, and a team of professional hackers? With access to nuclear weapons and key people in various world governments, ComWar (Computer Optimized Warfare) is ready to launch nuclear missiles at Japan; then Russia will invade Europe, and the Middle East will explode in the aftermath. Mahegan must battle an enemy who seems to know his every move, and, worse, his plans are muddled by personal considerations: Will his heart get in the way of the mission? Tata has taken elements of the world's political stage and mixed them brilliantly with a virtual treatise on cybersecurity. Throw in a charismatic villain steering the game, and you have all the elements in place for a classic, high-adventure technothriller. The open-ended conclusion will leave readers hanging, but that will only make them wish that Tata could please write faster. This is the best thriller yet by the former brigadier general.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

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The world order is being hacked to pieces . . .

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Phase 1 of ComWar is complete.

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