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Balefire Kindle Edition

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A chilling and prophetic story about a lone professional terrorist sent to a small coastal city in California to tear apart their police department and terrify the citizenry as he prepares to ignite his own ‘Olympic’ flame. A New York Times Bestseller.

"A real heart-attack of a climax!. . . Written by a working cop, BALEFIRE offers continuously rising excitement and suspense."
- Publisher's Weekly

"Taut, well-written, a page turner that shocks the reader . . . From page one, BALEFIRE pulls the reader into the explosive climax."
- MARY HIGGINS CLARK, author of A CRY IN THE NIGHT

"A THRILLER THAT GRABS THE READER in the opening pages and keeps him turning them eagerly until the very end."
- Associated Press

"I WAS HOOKED . . . . an intriguing and gripping read. And what a terrific ending!"
- CLIVE CUSSLER, author of RAISE THE TITANIC!

"BALEFIRE COMES AT YOU LIKE A FIRESTORM. It's all there: international intrique, terrorism, and fear set in a California that none of us has ever seen before, the dark side of Orange County. The action starts fast and then accelerates straight through to the last page."
- JOHN SAUL, author of THE GOD PROJECT

“His prose is sheer explosive energy.”
- Eric Lustbader

"Goddard writes circles around many others in his field."
- Dorothy Uhnak

"Goddard nicely combines our instinctive fear of things glimpsed at the corner of the eye with the mind's rational habit of assembling evidence. . ."
- Tom Perry

Length: 338 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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ASIN : B004BDP926
Publisher : Spectrum Literary Agency, Inc. (9 November 2010)
Language : English
File size : 1285 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 338 pages

Best Sellers Rank: 1,657,948 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 32,822 in Suspense Thrillers (Kindle Store)
- 58,425 in Suspense Thrillers (Books)

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berni mcquade

One scary concept!

Reviewed in Canada on 19 July 2015

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This is one of the scariest book I've read .... if you consider when it was written and what's happening now some foresight on the author's part mmmmm! I would have to say even though this one of Goddard's earlier book it's by far his best [In my opinion].
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David T.

A good read, recommended by....ME!

Reviewed in the United States on 31 October 2015

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I have probably read this book about three times in paperback, now that I have it on kindle, hopefully I won't lose it,
The book is set in Huntington Beach, CA so if you are from the So Cal area you will recognize many areas of the setting.
I find it to be a real page turner and though I have re-read it a few times over about 20 years I still enjoy it.
All in all, I recommend it if you are a suspense,crime, fictional with a hint of reality.

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P. T. Hill

This book holds up over time

Reviewed in the United States on 16 July 2004

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This book was written before the 1984 Olympics. Today - one month before the 2004 Olympics - I found the story just as plausible and terrifying now as it was 20 years ago. I think the most disturbing part of the book is how successfully a single (yet well-financed) terrorist could disrupt, distract and divert the focus of law enforcement by knowing how they think and using it against them. Perhaps the greatest feat in Balefire is not the physical action (there's plenty - it's not all psychological), but the ability of the protagonists to think outside the box they let themselves get herded into. I don't know why this never got made into a movie. Maybe it's too real. Read the book -- with the lights on.

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Out of date, published in 1984

Reviewed in the United States on 8 August 2018

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Set in 1984 just before the Olympics. Most of the local information is very out of date so if you want to read about a story set in Huntington Beach don’t bother.

Just gonna say what I think

Great read. Great Author

Reviewed in the United States on 9 January 2020

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Interesting read. Kept my interest from start to finish. Good work Ken. See you a CFFLD. The pleasure was mine.

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