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RANDOM NUMBER...

This was the chance they had gambled on...

The bomb was hidden deep in the hotel’s basement two years earlier on spec. Now the Washington hotel is to host a US government sponsored Middle East peace conference.
Ten year-old Hussein Shaffeed’s father and his stepmother are members of a group of radicals planning to activate the bomb!

In a small town just outside Washington DC, ten year-old Abi Swenson is at home, recovering between bouts of chemotherapy treating her cancer. A new telephone is installed to relieve her isolation and boredom.

Abi experiments calling random numbers and connects with Hussein. An unlikely friendship forms.

He relates words from his parents late night conversations
and their secretive behaviour. Soon both are certain that something evil is being planned...

But who will believe two children?

LanguageEnglish
Release dateAug 23, 2015
ISBN9781310406256
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J.P. Burke

ABOUT THE AUTHORSean Burke was born in Athlone, Co. Westmeath in Ireland. His forty year marriage to his wife Mary has resulted in four children and five grandchildren. Educated in the Marist Brothers College in Athlone, over the years he has worked in the aviation, pharmaceutical, engineering, and service industries. A sportsman all his life, he represented his country at all levels in his favoured sport of basketball.A voracious reader, his preferred authors cover most fiction genres.Over the years, he published short stories and poetry in magazines and newspapers and has only lately ventured into writing novels. Already with four books to his credit, each feature his hero, Detective Sergeant Scobie Tierney of the Irish police. Sean still lives in Athlone.

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