№ 9· 2011
Soft Target
Stephen Hunter
A follow-up to "Dead Zero" finds retired marine sergeant Ray Cruz confronting a band of terrorists who have taken over the Mall of America, where they begin to systematically execute more than one thousand hostages. Black Friday. America's largest shopping mall, suburban Minneapolis. 3:00 pm. Twelve gunmen open fire in the mall corridors, and take more than a thousand hostage. Cruz, a retired Marine sniper, is taken captive along with his fiancée and her family. He has a plan-- now all he needs is a gun...