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Informationen zum Autor Mark Harril Saunders was born and raised in the Washington, D.C., area and holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia, where he was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. He has traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, and China. His writing has appeared in the VQR, Boston Review, and the Virginian-Pilot, and in 2001 he was awarded the Andrew S. Lytle Prize for fiction from Sewanee Review. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with his wife and three children. Klappentext Kabul, Afghanistan, 1979: CIA station chief Lucius Burling, an idealistic but flawed product of his nation's intelligence establishment, barely survives the assassination of the American ambassador. ""Ministers of Fire" belongs on the bookshelf with John le Carre and Eric Ambler. . . . I enjoyed it enormously." --John Casey, National Book award-winning author of "Spartina and Compass Rose""A Chinese puzzle thriller--intricate and richly layered." --Joseph Kanon, author of "The Good German" Zusammenfassung Kabul, Afghanistan, 1979: CIA station chief Lucius Burling, an idealistic but flawed product of his nation’s intelligence establishment, barely survives the assassination of the American ambassador.
