{"product_id":"9781466836204","title":"The Threat (Dan Lenson Series #9)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the bestselling author \u003ci\u003eof The Circle, The Med, The Gulf, The Passage, Tomahawk, China Sea, Black Storm\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Command \u003c\/i\u003e. . .  a heartstopping thriller of danger and conspiracy at the highest levels of command and government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedal of Honor winner Commander Dan Lenson wonders who proposed that he be assigned to the White House military staff. It's a dubious honor---serving a president the Joint Chiefs hate more than any other in modern history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLenson reports to the West Wing to direct a multiservice team working to interdict the flow of drugs from Latin America.  Never one to just warm a chair, he sets out to help destroy the Cartel---and uncovers a troubling thread of clues that link cunning and ruthless drug lord Don Juan Nuñez to an assault on a nuclear power plant in Mexico, an obscure Islamic relief agency in Los Angeles, and an air cargo company's imminent flight plan across the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLenson has to battle civilian aides and his own distaste for politics to derail a terrorist strike over the Mexican border. His punishment for breaking the rules to do so is to be sent to the East Wing . . .  as the military aide carrying the nuclear \"football,\" the locked briefcase with the secret codes for a nuclear strike, for a president he suspects is having an affair with his wife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd something else is going on beneath the day-to-day turmoil and backstabbing. As his marriage deteriorates and his frustration with Washington builds, Lenson becomes an unwitting accomplice in a dangerous and subversive conspiracy. The U.S. military is responsible for its Commander in Chief's transportation and security. If someone felt strongly enough about it . . . it would be easy for the president to die.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141242339568,"sku":"9781466836204","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466836204_p0.jpg?v=1763685462","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466836204","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}