by StephenCoonts (Author)
The death of a French intelligence agent on an Air France flight to Amman, Jordan, is the trigger for Tommy Carmellini's latest adventure.Within the European Union, the national espionage agencies are fiercely competing for supremacy against each other - and against the CIA. When the Americans discover that the director of the French spy agency has secret investments in the Bank of Palestine, alarm bells go off. To investigate, the Americans send Jake Grafton, who has been brought back from retirement to unravel a tangle of espionage, terrorism and murder. And of course, the man Grafton wants on the point is Tommy Carmellini. Together they uncover an elaborate strategy to infiltrate the highest levels of Al Qaeda with a top-level plant - but who is playing whom? As Carmellini delves deep undercover he finds he is running for his life. Grafton and Carmellini uncover a horrifying plan to shake the West as never before - and a Catch 22: can they stop the conspiracy without compromising the intelligence source that could bring down Al Qaeda once and for all?
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Orion
Published: 09 Aug 2006
ISBN 10: 0752868683
ISBN 13: 9780752868684
Book Overview: Stephen Coonts goes from strength to strength - SAUCER, LIBERTY and WAGES OF SIN all confirmed his place in the big league Tommy Carmellini is a younger and sexier character, giving Coonts' novels a bolder and more engaging feel With every novel Steve is tackling larger and larger themes and doesn't shrink from topicality. He is rapidly establishing himself as a thoughtful as well as an action-packed writer 'Stephen Coonts just keeps getting better' Tom Clancy 'Coonts regularly pulls off one of the trickiest feats of thriller writing - combining convincing action, drama and high tension with humour, but without descending to a flippant disregard for human life and morality' Guardian