One Minute to Midnight by Vincent Depaul Lupiano

One Minute to Midnight by Vincent Depaul Lupiano

Rayne Foster is on a covert mission to surveil the estate of Florida mafia boss, Donato Cheese Chesario. Photographing from a tree in a violent thunderstorm, Foster spots a camo-clad intruder sneaking into the mobster's estate using a grappling hook. His intent: steal a box stamped with a Nazi swastika containing an enigmatic object Chesario brought back from Germany after WWII.

Fatal complications slam Foster with blistering surprise when a rogue FBI agent and his nefarious cohort known as the Magician, kill their way into the estate to also steal the box. But the object of everyone's intent has disappeared-an item that, in the wrong hands, will have severe international consequences.

Foster now senses her CIA field director has duped her. Suddenly, artifice and subterfuge conjoin with thunder and lighting and present a mounting death toll in and around the estate:

Bodyguard cut down in the foyer. One dead.

Mistress slammed by a burst of gunfire from the Magician's MAC 10 machine pistol. Two dead.

Chesario, refuting any knowledge of the mysterious object, killed by the rogue FBI agent. Three dead.

The camo-clad intruder, meanwhile, has vanished empty-handed into the night.

Rayne finds her CIA handler with a bullet hole in the back of his head and the take-up reel that recorded their transmissions missing. Death toll: four and mounting.

The FBI agent and Magician are confident Rayne or the intruder took the box before they arrived.

As her field director intended, Rayne is now the bait. And she has no idea what is inside the box.

Lupiano, Vincent Depaul: - Vincent dePaul Lupiano is the author of two novels under the pseudonym Christopher Sloan, In Search of Eagles, and The Wings of Death. Writing as Vincent dePaul Lupiano, he has written three nonfiction books, It Was a Very Good Year: A Cultural History of the United States From 1776 to 1996; Exploring IBM's Bold Internet Strategy: An Inside Look at IBM's Vision for Network Computing; and Operation Tidal Wave: The Bloodiest Air Battle in the History of War published by Lyons Press. He spent many years as program director, writer, and host of his radio program at WFAS in White Plain, NY. In New York City, he worked at WOR-TV and WOR-AM as a promotional writer and producer. At the American Broadcasting Company's WABC and WPLJ, he was a writer, producer, and editorial director. He also worked at IBM for ten years as a speechwriter to senior executives, editor of a management publication, producer, and director of corporate films and videos. He was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City, and currently resides in Franklin Lakes, NJ, with his dogs, Chase and Kiefer.

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ISBN 13	9781735617435
ISBN 10	1735617431
Title	One Minute to Midnight
Author	Vincent Depaul Lupiano
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Armin Lear Press LLC
Year published	2020-12-08
Number of pages	328
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.