{"product_id":"9780698151925","title":"The Golden Hour","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A novel that makes your heart race . . . a thriller that weaves diplomacy and national security together with espionage, terrorism and Washington infighting.”—\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinary thriller debut of twenty-first-century espionage, by a former deputy assistant secretary of state who “knows where all the bodies are buried—literally” (W. E. B. Griffin).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Golden Hour: In international politics, the hundred hours following a coup, when there is still a chance that diplomacy, a secret back channel, military action\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003esomething\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003emight reverse the chain of events.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the top American diplomat for West Africa, Todd Moss saw a great deal about how diplomacy and politics actually work. But as he shows us, the results aren’t always pretty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Judd Ryker is appointed director of the new State Department Crisis Reaction Unit, he figures he has a mandate to help the United States respond more quickly to foreign crises, but he hasn’t reckoned with the intense State, Defense, Pentagon, White House, and CIA infighting and turf battles he would face. Then comes the coup in Mali. It is his chance to prove that his theory of the Golden Hour actually works\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003ebut in the real world, those hours move very, very quickly indeed, and include things he’d never even imagined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Ryker races from Washington across Europe to the Sahara Desert, he finds that personalities, loyalties, everything he thought he knew, begin to shift and change beneath his feet\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eand that friends and enemies come in many forms.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106180120816,"sku":"9780698151925","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780698151925_p0.jpg?v=1763626357","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780698151925","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}