by A . J . Quinnell (Author)
A vital Central American nation has fallen to Cuban-backed guerrillas. The American ambassador is held prisoner. And the US President faces the choice: get him out ...or kill him. In as rat-infested room ambassador Peabody faces a brilliant, ruthless young protege of Fidel Castro, Jorge Calderon, who is determined to extract the truth behind a secret CIA operation against Cuba. Meanwhile, back in Washington, the President is caught between CIA strategists who want to eliminate Peabody before he can reveal the CIA's plans, and Colonel Silas Slocum, the one man who believes he can rescue the ambassador in an awesome and daring rescue...
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: New
Publisher: Orion, London
Published: 01 Jul 2003
ISBN 10: 0752802593
ISBN 13: 9780752802596
Book Overview: Technically and psychologically A J Quinnell climbs a few more rungs with this breathless thriller Observer As spare, tense and dovetailed a thriller as Quintell has yet concocted Sunday Times An exceptional thriller ... here is a writer who can make characters come alive and build tension so you cannot wait to turn the page .. uses a triple first-person technique which works brilliantly ... a memorable novel Daily Telegraph
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