"The Mackinaw Bridge, a five-mile long suspension bridge that has served to connect Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas since Eisenhower was president. Serene on a balmy summer's day, or too lethal for traffic to cross when the Great Lakes turns stormy, it's the busiest stretch of Interstate Seventy-Five in the United States.
Especially on Labor Day. During the annual Bridge Walk, tens of thousands of Michigan residents and visitors, led by the state's governor, fill the bridge's northbound lane and hike from the Lower Peninsula to the Upper Peninsula. With projected casualty rates that make the World Trade Center disaster look like a minor tragedy, the Bridge Walk is a perfect time and place for American-hating Philippe Aziz to strike a meaningful blow for his brand of Islamism. Two plutonium dirty-bombs remote-detonated below the bridge's roadbed at the right time would kill tens of thousands.
Survival instructor Rod Elliot finds himself an unwilling obstacle to Aziz's plans. Already regarded with suspicion by local law enforcement, unable to return home without being arrested, Rod finds himself with no direction to go except head-on against a team of trained terrorists. The terrorists are rabid killers all, and fugitive Rod is the only person who can stop them. But he's in over his head."
THE MACKINAC INCIDENT
A thrilling new novel from author Len McDougall
Skyhorse Publishing, NY
Publication Date: August 1, 2013
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A veteran survival instructor’s skills are put to the ultimate test when he is confronted by a team of murderous al-Qaeda-trained terrorists hell-bent on destruction.
In the north Atlantic, fifteen miles off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada, a Soviet-era diesel submarine off-loads four men before being intercepted and sunk by a U.S. Navy hunter-killer sub patrolling the area. The men make up a team of al-Qaeda-trained specialists skilled in the black arts of terrorist warfare, and they're headed by a sadistic psychopath who has billions of dollars in oil money with which to indulge his murderous fantasies. If their plan succeeds, it will cost the lives of thousands of Americans.
Only Rod Elliot, a reclusive, aging ex-con turned survival expert, stands between them and one of the most devastating plots ever hatched by the deviated mind of a killer: to blow up the five-mile-long Mackinaw Bridge and detonate enough plutonium to contaminate the area with radiation for decades. When a murderous encounter with the bomb-toting terrorists occurs during a survival class deep in the woods of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Elliot finds himself in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with no alternative but to go head-to-head with these ruthless killers. Rod Elliot may be the only person who in a position to stop them. But our reluctant hero is outnumbered, outgunned, and in way over his head.
Due to Elliot’s checkered past, law local enforcement officials arbitrarily blame him for the terrible crimes that are committed by the terrorists over the next few days. Only one cop, a seasoned FBI agent named Colyer, thinks there is more here than meets the eye. Colyer believes that Elliot is innocent and he's willing to prove it. But local cops consider him an outsider, so he's operating mostly alone, with no help. Can Special Agent Colyer connect the pieces of this elaborate puzzle and catch up to Elliot and the terrorists before it's too late?
About the author:
Fans of the outdoors are familiar with the books, magazine articles, and beautiful photography of Len McDougall. A veteran survival instructor, magazine writer, author of more than a dozen nonfiction books about the great outdoors, and himself given up for dead in the winter woods on two occasions, this is McDougall's first novel. His expertise and knowledge of the backwoods are evident on every page, and the many adventures of his own life are interwoven expertly into every aspect of this very believable story.
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