![]() ![]() The tension slowly builds over the course of the novel culminating in an adrenalin-filled conclusion.Tom Clancy’s 1988 novel, The Sum of All Fears, bears some similarities to this 1975 work, with the role of the Israeli Defense Force, a group of Palestinian terrorists attempting to detonate a bomb during the Super Bowl, and conflict between intelligence agencies. Harris also uses flashbacks to fill in characters’ backstories when it becomes necessary to understand parts of the plot. after torture as a POW in Vietnam, and Dahlia Iyad from the Palestinian terrorist group Black September – and those who want to stop them – David Kabakov of Mossad and Sam Corley of the FBI – as the former group acquires all of their tools and the latter tries to uncover clues about the terrorists’ plans. The story alternates between the terrorists – blimp pilot Michael Lander, who seeks revenge against the U.S. The 1972 Munich Olympic hostage crisis, in which Palestinian terrorists took Israeli athletes hostage, inspired Harris to write the story and he references that act several times throughout. Black Sunday, Thomas Harris’s first novel (and his only one not about Hannibal Lecter) tells the story of terrorists attempting to detonate a bomb from a blimp at the Super Bowl and the Mossad and FBI agents working to find them and prevent the attack. ![]()
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