The Ambassador

About the author

Peter Colt is a 1996 graduate of the University of Rhode Island with a BA in Political Science and a 24-year veteran of the Army Reserve with deployments to Kosovo and Iraq as an Army Civil Affairs officer. He is currently a police officer in Rhode Island. He is married with two sons and two perpetually feuding cats. He is the author of the Andy Roark mysteries: The Off-Islander, Back Bay Blues, Death at Fort Devens, The Ambassador and The Judge.

Summary

Boston, 1985. Gordon Stevenson, the former ambassador of Laos, has been getting death threats, and he demands private investigator Andy Roark take the case. After what Stevenson did during the Vietnam war, though, Roark's almost tempted to cheer the man's would-be assassin on. Then he finds out why he's been headhunted for the job ...

Product details

• Authors: Peter Colt
• Publisher: Canongate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2023
• EAN: 9781448307678
• ISBN: 978-1-4483-0767-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 223 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 465 g
• Series: An Andy Roark Mystery
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Thrillers / General, Crime & mystery, Boston, Vermont, Massachusetts, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, FICTION / Noir, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989