Kingdom Come - Rilegato

Hougan, Jim

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ISBN 10: 0345433246 ISBN 13: 9780345433244

Casa editrice: Ballantine Books, 2000

Riassunto

As a CIA agent "under non-official cover" in London, Jack Dunphy sets up commercial fronts and banking facilities for unsavory clients with money that is too hot to handle - a lucrative business that allows him to spy under a false identity. But after someone he has under surveillance is literally slaughtered, Dunphy is immediately ordered back to the United States. "Do it now! Don't bother packing, and don't go to your flat."
On his return to headquarters at Langley, Dunphy is relentlessly interrogated and dumped into a tedious desk job that seems calculated to make him quit. Determined to learn why, he uses all his CIA tradecraft on the agency that has turned against him. Gaining access to the murdered man's classified file, Dunphy discovers a cryptic list of names, including reference to the 143rd Surgical Airwing, a military unit that officially doesn't exist. Tracking down a former member of that covert unit, he hears fragments of a story that seems too wild to be true - providing damning evidence of a vast conspiracy deeply entrenched within the CIA.
But searching for the truth proves a deadly enterprise when his only ally is killed.

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Recensione:

“[AN] INTELLIGENT AND PULSE-POUNDING THRILLER . . .
Hougan demonstrates fine command of his material.
His familiarity with the ways of spies permeates his novel.
Better yet, his writing is punchy and spare,
his characterizations lively.”
–Publishers Weekly

From the Paperback edition.

L'autore:

Jim Hougan has won awards for his investigative journalism. He is the author of three nonfiction books: Decadence, about the sixties into seventies; Spooks, about the American intelligence community; and Secret Agenda about Watergate. An Alicia Patterson and Rockefeller Foundation fellow, Hougan is the former Washington Editor of Harper's Magazine. He has also reported for National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and produced documentary films for Frontline, 60 Minutes, A&E, and the Discovery Channel. He lives in Afton, Virginia.

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• Editore: Ballantine Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0345433246
• ISBN 13: 9780345433244
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 340