Jericho's Fall

Zusatztext "Strong. . . . Immediate. . . . Masterful.”—Steve Berry "Heart-stopping. . . . Carter brings the reader to a blazing final confrontation."-- Denver Post   "An intense! beautifully written thriller that held me in its grip from the very first page to the last."--Christopher Reich   "The best espionage novel I've come across in twenty years."—Lincoln Child   “Carter meticulously ratchets up the tension.” —Chris Bohjalian! The Boston Globe   “ Jericho's Fall is that rare thing: a page-turner that grips the readers' attention as they plunge into a vortex. . . . A thrilling roller coaster ride until the very last page. . . . Carter is a masterly novelist.”— San Francisco Chronicle   “An intricate spy thriller that proceeds at breakneck speed. . . . Graham Greene's readers! who savored [his] novels' unselfconscious erudition and matter-of-fact moral complexity! as well as their engaging plots! are likely to feel themselves on familiar ground here.”— Los Angeles Times   “A simmering page-turner about the murky underbelly of intelligence and finance that.”— Seattle Times   “Carter writes graceful prose! and he understands the mechanics of suspenseful storytelling.”— Washington Post   “One of those novels that people linger over and re-read simply for the experience and pleasure of analyzing how the author worked his magic. . . . Stephen Carter is possessed of a sharp and subtle wit. . . . This is the sharpest manifestation of his talent to date.”— Bookreporter Informationen zum Autor Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University, and the author of seven nonfiction books. Jericho’s Fall is his fourth novel. He and his family live in Connecticut. Klappentext A riveting spy thriller, Jericho's Fall is the spellbinding story of a young woman running for her life from shadowy government forces. In a secluded mountain retreat, Jericho Ainsley, former CIA director and former secretary of defense, is dying of cancer. To his bedside he has called Rebecca DeForde, a young, single mother, who was once his lover. Instead of simply bidding farewell, however, Ainsley imparts an explosive secret and DeForde finds herself thrown into a world of international intrigue, involving ex-CIA executives, local police, private investigators, and even a US senator. With no one to trust, DeForde is suddenly on the run, relying on her own wits and the lessons she learned from Ainsley to stay alive. Leseprobe The Mountain (i) Darkness bore down on her as the car shuddered up the mountain. Distant lights danced at the edge of her vision, then vanished. Beck wondered how bad it would be. In her mind, she saw only the Jericho she had loved fifteen yeas ago and, in some ways, still did: the dashing scion of an old New England family that had provided government officials since the Revolution. One of his ancestors had a traffic circle named for him in Washington. A cousin served in the Senate. The family’s history was overwhelming; the Jericho for whom Beck had fallen had certainly overwhelmed her. He had been brilliant, and powerful, and confident, and fun, ever ready with eternal wisdom, or clever barbs. She did not like to think of that mighty man ravaged by disease. She had no illusions. She remembered what cancer had done to her own father.Whatever was waiting, she had to go.On Saturday afternoon, having cleared her decks with Pfister, Beck took the shuttle from Boston to Washington. She lived in Virginia, a stone’s throw from Reagan National Airport. Her daughter was at a church retreat, church being a thing that Beck did because she had been raised that way, and her mother would be offended if Rebecca dared differ. Beck decided to let Nina stay the night with the other kids. The two of them could ride together to the airport on Sunday,...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Stephen L Carter, Stephen L. Carter
• Verlag: Vintage USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9780307474476
• ISBN: 978-0-307-47447-6
• Seiten: 368
• Abmessung: 130 mm x 203 mm x 21 mm
• Serien: VINTAGE BOOKS; Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Thema: Belletristik > Spannung