National-bestselling author Alan Jacobson returns with a story as fresh as the headlines, a novel--his best in years--that moves him into the thriller writer eliteHard Target by Alan Jacobson is a ticking time bomb that will keep you clinging to the edge of your seat . . . and turning the pages. An explosion pulverizes the president-elect's helicopter on election night. It soon becomes clear that the group behind the assassination attempt possesses far greater reach than the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has yet encountered--and a plot so deeply interwoven in the country's fabric that it threatens to upend America's political system.