01982cam a2200313 4500 93490048 TxAuBib 20120104120000.0 110805s2011||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011030150 9781439138700 hardcover $26.99 1439138702 hardcover $26.99 (OCoLC)709673429 TxAuBib Hunter, Stephen. Soft Target / Stephen Hunter. 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2011. 256 p. ; 24 cm. Ray Cruz ; 2 Black Friday. The United States' largest shopping mall. Suburban Minneapolis 3:00 P.M. Ten thousand people jam the aisles, the corridors, the elevators, and the escalators of America, the Mall -- a giant Rubik's Cube of a structure with its own amusement park located in the spacious center atrium. Of those people, nine thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight have come to shop. The other twelve have come to kill. The unthinkable happens: twelve gunmen open fire in the mall corridors, driving the pack before them. Those on the upper floors take cover or get out any way they can; but within a few minutes the gunmen have herded more than a thousand hostages into the amusement park. Ray Cruz, one of the heroes of Hunter's last novel, "Dead Zero", is in the mall with his fiancée and her family. The retired Marine sniper thought he was done with stalking and killing -- but among the trapped thousands, he's the only one with a plan and the guts to confront the self-proclaimed "Brigade Mumbai." Now all he needs is a gun... 20120104. Snipers Fiction. Terrorism. Prevention Fiction. Minnesota Fiction. Fiction ordered October 2011. Ray Cruz ; 2. TXLYT