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    Point of Entry: A Novel

    By Peter Schechter

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    With calculated cunning, renegade Syrian intelligence operatives have discovered how to smuggle uranium-235—the key material required to manufacture an atomic weapon—into the United States undetected, exploiting a network of the most experienced and sophisticated smugglers the world has ever known.

    As the CIA repeatedly misinterprets numerous intelligence warnings, only Marta Pradilla—Colombia's beautiful, hard-minded new president—can assist the United States' conservative, isolationist President Stockman in finding the terrorists and their deadly cargo before it's too late. Set in Washington, D.C., Bogotá, Rome, and Tbilisi, and featuring a cast of major international figures, Point of Entry brings readers into an intensely treacherous world that reads less like fiction every day.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061844454
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    Peter Schechter

    Peter Schechter is the author of Point of Entry, and an international political and communications consultant. A founder of one of Washington's premier strategic communications consulting firms, he has spent twenty years advising presidents, writing advertising for political parties, ghost-writing columns for CEOs, and counseling international organizations out of crises. He also owns a winery, farms goats, and is a partner in a number of successful restaurants. Schechter has lived in Europe and Latin America and is fully fluent in six languages. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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      Peter Schechter’s Point of Entry makes good use of his background in international politics and relations. I highly enjoyed his detailed use of the culture of politics as well as the beauty of places he has certainly visited on his travels. Point of Entry is thought provoking without becoming a heavy read. It's subject matter is timely without overt references to specific events. Mr. Schechter also manages to put a woman in power in a country where such a thing is highly unlikely. Nice touch. A hopeful thing for women everywhere who would like to see what effect a nurturing hand would have on the course of politics.At times John Stockman is difficult to like yet his warmth shines through in his interactions with the women in his life. In the end I was very pleased when his humanity overcame his dutiful demeanor and he went against all protocol and requested a dinner meeting with the very earthy Columbian leader. I do hope to see more from Mr. Schechter.