Deep Black: Payback
A covert mission in Peru is derailed by a renegade general's devastating threat in the New York Times–bestselling author's acclaimed technothriller series.
Ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean and his top-secret NSA team have their orders: Infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power to stop a general from acing an election. All Dean has to do is find a way inside an impenetrable bank vault protected by armed guards round the clock—it's all in a day's work for the men and women of Deep Black.
But things get complicated when Dean and company discover the general's second plot. The military madman's ruse—a nuclear weapon he claims is in the hands of Marxist guerillas, a bomb that only he can rescue . . . and control.
When the general and his plot are exposed, the NSA concludes the greatest threat is over. But in fact, it's only just beginning . . .
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Deep Black: Payback
A covert mission in Peru is derailed by a renegade general's devastating threat in the New York Times–bestselling author's acclaimed technothriller series.
Ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean and his top-secret NSA team have their orders: Infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power to stop a general from acing an election. All Dean has to do is find a way inside an impenetrable bank vault protected by armed guards round the clock—it's all in a day's work for the men and women of Deep Black.
But things get complicated when Dean and company discover the general's second plot. The military madman's ruse—a nuclear weapon he claims is in the hands of Marxist guerillas, a bomb that only he can rescue . . . and control.
When the general and his plot are exposed, the NSA concludes the greatest threat is over. But in fact, it's only just beginning . . .
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Overview

A covert mission in Peru is derailed by a renegade general's devastating threat in the New York Times–bestselling author's acclaimed technothriller series.
Ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean and his top-secret NSA team have their orders: Infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power to stop a general from acing an election. All Dean has to do is find a way inside an impenetrable bank vault protected by armed guards round the clock—it's all in a day's work for the men and women of Deep Black.
But things get complicated when Dean and company discover the general's second plot. The military madman's ruse—a nuclear weapon he claims is in the hands of Marxist guerillas, a bomb that only he can rescue . . . and control.
When the general and his plot are exposed, the NSA concludes the greatest threat is over. But in fact, it's only just beginning . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781429954921
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 06/04/2024
Series: Deep Black , #4
Sold by: OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED - EBKS
Format: eBook
Pages: 484
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

About The Author

Stephen Coonts is the author of The Disciple, The Assassin, and the Deep Black and Saucers series, among many other bestsellers. His first novel, the classic flying tale Flight of the Intruder, spent more than six months at the top of The New York Times bestseller list. A motion picture based on the book was released in 1991. His novels have been published around the world and translated into more than a dozen languages. In 1986, he was honored by the U.S. Naval Institute with its Author of the Year Award. He is also the editor of several anthologies, Combat, On Glorious Wings, Victory and War in the Air. Coonts served in the Navy from 1969 to 1977, including two combat cruises on the USS Enterprise during the last years of the Vietnam War.
JIM DEFELICE is co-author of the New York Times best-selling series, Stephen Coonts's Deep Black. He has also written several other thrillers, including Threat Level Black.



Stephen Coonts (b. 1946) was born in Buckhannon, West Virginia. He is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-eight thriller and nonfiction titles, including The Intruders, The Minotaur, Under Siege, The Red Horseman,and The Cannibal Queen. A combat pilot in the Vietnam War, Coonts’s technical knowledge of aviation and warfare has contributed to the enormous popularity of his novels. The author currently divides his time between his home in Colorado and a farm in West Virginia, where he does much of his writing.

Date of Birth:

July 19, 1946

Place of Birth:

Morgantown, West Virginia

Education:

B.A., West Virginia University, 1968; J.D., University of Colorado, 1979

Read an Excerpt

STEPHEN COONTS' DEEP BLACK: PAYBACK (Chapter 1)

Charles Dean glanced toward the sky as he stepped away from the building, noting the direction and speed of the clouds as they moved. It was an old sniper’s trick, a habit burned into his being long ago, so ancient he did it unconsciously. And yet if he had to use the information—if he were sighting a target at five hundred yards across a hill obscured by thick vegetation—his eyes and upper body would adjust to the light breeze as automatically and easily as his feet adjusted to the uneven sidewalk.

“How’s it lookin’, pardner?” boomed a voice in his head.

Dean pulled a satellite phone from his pocket, fussed with it for a few seconds, then held it to his ear. The phone was just a cover—like all Deep Black field ops, he communicated through a device implanted in his skull behind his ear. A tiny microphone sewn into his clothes picked up his voice; his belt held the rest of the unit, which transmitted through a satellite system.

“Same as yesterday afternoon,” he told Kjartan “Tommy” Magnor-Karr. “Two guards outside. I just finished setting up the video bugs.”

“Booster transmitter is set.”

“Signals are strong,” said a third voice. Though the other words were as loud as Karr’s, the man who said them—Jeff Rockman—was sitting in an underground bunker some five thousand miles to the north.

The video bugs were miniature video cameras about the size and shape of a button. Their signals went to the booster Karr had planted. The booster uploaded the video stream to a satellite, which then relayed it to Rockman in the Deep Black nerve center known as the Art Room.

“We have sharp visuals all around,” said Rockman. “You’re good to go. Lia’s plane is on schedule. Estimated time of arrival at Lima airport just over two hours.”

“Rockman, you sound like you’re an air traffic controller,” said Karr.

“Is that supposed to be an insult or a compliment?”

Dean turned and began walking down the street as Karr bantered good-naturedly with Rockman, who was their mission “runner.” During a mission, the runner maintained communications and coordinated operational support for the team in the field. The runner could access a wide array of intelligence, ranging from radio intercepts to satellite imagery, in real time.

He could also be a bit of a noodge.

“You guys ought to get hopping if you’re going to make the airport in time,” said Rockman.

“Plenty of time,” said Karr.

As Rockman began lecturing the other agent about the notoriously heavy Lima traffic, Dean stopped at a small newsstand and bought a newspaper. The headlines shouted about a car bombing in the city the night before, the work of terrorists the government had claimed were stamped out months ago. Dean considered practicing his Spanish with the vendor, but the man’s somber face warned him off.

Karr was waiting in the rented car around the corner.

“What do you say to a little breakfast, Charlie?”

“At the airport, sure.”

“Airport food? Aw, come on.”

“We don’t want to be late.”

“We won’t be. I’m driving.”

“We also want to get there in one piece.”

“Always,” said Karr, squealing the tires as he lurched into traffic.

STEPHEN COONTS' DEEP BLACK: PAYBACK Copyright © 2005 by Stephen Coonts

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