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Blurb: “The Agency had turned Paul Kavanagh down for a job-because he thought too much. As Agent Dattner put it at the final interview, "we need a man with a short circuit in his brain so that the process of independent thought is bypassed."
Then, surprisingly, and under decidedly chilling circumstances, Kavanagh interviews Dattner on a wild and lonely island.
The two men form an unholy alliance to pull off an incredible feat. The idea is to highjack $2,000,000 worth of U.S. govern-ment-issue firepower-enough ammunition to level a small country. The arms are intended for some "good-guy" guerillas and
are strictly top-secret. Knocking over Fort Knox would be a pushover compared to
"liberating" this highly sophisticated arse-nal, surrounded by the protection of the military—and the Agency.
On a bleak winter morning in the wilds of South Dakota, D-Day arrives. Four huge trucks loaded with the cargo, each guarded by a soldier with an M-14, hit the road.
So do Kavanagh and Dattner. In all, nineteen men, most of them armed, stand be
tween them and the perfect heist. All nineteen have been alerted for trouble. But nothing could have adequately prepared them for the two cold-blooded killers and their fantastic maneuver.
Such Men Are Dangerous is the most spine-tingling, nerve-fraying novel of violence since Dashiell Hammett's Red Har-vest. In the words of the advance notice in The Publishers' Weekly, "This will sock you right between the eyes. It's terrific."