Secrets of Pickaxe Mountain by Jean-Luc Martel (.ePUB)
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Secrets of Pickaxe Mountain by Jean-Luc Martel
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Overview: The Hammer: A Geopolitical Thriller of Espionage, Nuclear Brinkmanship, and Survival
In the shadowy world of Middle Eastern geopolitics, the line between academic research and international espionage is thinner than a tripwire. When a covert strike sets the stage for a catastrophic geopolitical incident, one embedded French spy must risk everything to expose the truth and prevent World War III.
Synopsis
As Iran accelerates its nuclear program, moving 440kg of highly enriched uranium deep inside the impenetrable solid diorite of the Pickaxe Mountain facility, the world edges closer to the abyss. Unable to rely on conventional bunker-busters to penetrate the mountain, the Israeli Defense Forces initiate a daring preemptive strike using “Bedrock Sonata”—a revolutionary three-stage weapon designed to shatter the underground cavern from the outside in using purely acoustic resonance.
However, the strike triggers a catastrophic, asymmetrical escalation. In the chaotic aftermath, Israel is globally condemned for crossing an unthinkable line, causing the United States to abandon its ally and setting the stage for total regional annihilation.
The only hope for peace rests 80 kilometers away in Isfahan with Adèle, a fiercely intelligent, emotionally detached French DGSE operative. Operating under the codename ALOUETTE, Adèle has spent years posing as a clumsy academic to map the fragmented student resistance in Iran. Now trapped in a locked-down city under a total digital blackout, she must retrieve the irrefutable proof of what truly happened. Hunted by the ruthless Iranian intelligence state, Adèle must rely on a cynical Iranian engineering student and a dangerous smuggling route across the Dasht-e Lut desert to get the truth to the UN before the countdown to war reaches zero.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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