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  • The Day Before Midnight

  • A Novel
  • By: Stephen Hunter
  • Narrated by: Philip Bosco
  • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (53 ratings)

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The Day Before Midnight

By: Stephen Hunter
Narrated by: Philip Bosco
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Publisher's summary

The countdown to midnight begins on a winter dawn.

In Maryland, welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban home and whisked to the South Mountain MX missile site: a top-secret nuclear complex now taken over by paramilitary terrorists. Their mission: to unleash 35 megatons of nuclear doom in a devastatingly brilliant plot that threatens global disaster. All that stands between the Uzi-armed commandos and the launch button is a half-ton titanium block. They want Jack Hummel to cut through it.

But even as his torch burns closer to the launch key, a Delta Force veteran and a think-tank defense wizard are hard at work, trying to get inside South Mountain by defeating their own super-security systems, straining to stop the clock¿and Armageddon.

©1989 Stephen Hunter (P)2004 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.
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Critic reviews

"A smoothly believable race-against-time thriller with frightening plausibility." (Publishers Weekly)

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Early effort

Not sure if the abridgment eviscerated Hunter's pros, but this was clearly not up to the Bob Lee Stagger novels in terms of engagement and personality.

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ABRIDGED!!!!

I loved the book and was so excited to have an audiobook copy. I was crushed when I saw the playtime was only 2.5 hours and I knew that it was an abridged version. save yourself the money and read the story in book form. DETAILS MATTER!

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