Pirate Alley

A luxurious vacation cruise to the exotic locales of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden turns into a nightmare for passengers and crew when their ship is suddenly attacked and captured by a band of bloodthirsty Somali pirates. An initial rescue mission ends in failure; the decks are covered in blood.  Unless they are paid a ransom of $200 million dollars within seven days, the pirates threaten to execute all their hostages.  But information gleaned from a captured Al Qaeda operative indicates that there is a far more dangerous conspiracy afoot.

Once the ransom is paid, Islamic militants intend to swoop in and slaughter the passengers in an orgy of terror, hoping to provoke a massive American military response that will set the Muslim world aflame.  Jake Grafton is assigned to negotiate with the brutal pirate chief while his right hand man, Tommy Carmellini, and a team of CIA and Navy SEAL operatives mount an undercover operation to save the hostages and keep the U.S. from being maneuvered into a murderous war.

• Author
• Stephen Coonts

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 310

• Series
• Tommy Carmellini

• Publisher
• St. Martin's Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 978-0-312-37284-2

• EAN
• 9780312372842

• Genres
• fiction, thriller, action, audiobook, adventure, mystery, espionage, suspense

• Release date
• 2013