Of the Tom Clancy genre, the plot revolves around an Islamist terrorist who sets up a series of attacks on major US energy infrasturcture. They are well planned and each comes as a total surprise to the US. The attacks are certainly within the realm of possibility which makes them that much more frightening. The terrorist is named Aziz Abdul Muhammad and was hand picked by Osama Bin Laden to succeed him, hence the name “The Inheritor.”
Intelligence officer David Cain, Air Force Sergeant Emily Thompson and FBI Agent Dave Johnson work as a team to search out Aziz and his operations expert. Their search takes them far afield but just as they seem on the verge of solving the problem another attack takes place.
There is certainly a great deal of technical information set out in the story which is very interesting but it does not grab the reader as a Clancy story does. However unlike Tom Clancy’s approach “The Inheritor” does not end well for America.
