The Hunters

Zusatztext Praise for the Presidential Agent novels: "Punchy prose that connects like a right hook." - CHICAGO TRIBUNE "Griffin is well on his way to a credible American James Bond franchise. It's slick as hell." - MONSTERS AND CRITICS Informationen zum Autor W. E. B. Griffin was the author of seven bestselling series: The Corps, Brotherhood of War, Badge of Honor, Men at War, Honor Bound, Presidential Agent, and Clandestine Operations. He passed away in February 2019.   Klappentext The new Presidential Agent novel-now in paperback. Two brutal murders and millions of missing dollars in the growing UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal have led Charley Castillo and his team to Uruguay, where the man they seek is murdered right before their eyes. Those responsible have left just enough of a trail for Castillo to pick up the scent and follow it wherever it takes him-even if it's not exactly where he expected. I [ONE] Danubius Hotel Gellért Szent Gellért tér 1 Budapest, Hungary 0035 1 August 2005 When he heard the ping of the bell announcing the arrival of an elevator in the lobby of the Gellért, Sándor Tor, who was the director of security for the  Budapester Tages Zeitung , raised his eyes from a copy of the newspaper—so fresh from the presses that his fingers were stained with ink—to see who would be getting off. He was not at all surprised to see that it was Eric Kocian, managing director and editor in chief of the newspaper. The first stop of the first  Tages Zeitung  delivery truck to leave the plant was the Gellért. The old man must have been looking out his window again , Tor thought,  waiting to see the truck arrive . Tor was a burly fifty-two-year-old with a full head of curly black hair and a full mustache. He wore a dark blue single-breasted suit carefully tailored to conceal the Swiss SIGARMS P228 9mm semiautomatic pistol he carried in a high-ride hip holster. He looked like a successful businessman with a very good tailor, but he paled beside Eric Kocian, who stepped off the elevator into the Gellért lobby wearing an off-white linen suit with a white shirt, a white tie held to the collar with a discreet gold pin, soft white leather slip-on shoes, a white panama hat—the wide brim rakishly up on the right and down on the left—and carrying a sturdy knurled cane with a brass handle in the shape of a well-bosomed female. Kocian was accompanied by a large dog. The dog was shaped like a boxer, but he was at least a time and a half—perhaps twice—as large as a big boxer, and his coat was grayish black and tightly curled. Kocian walked to a table in the center of the lobby where a stack of the  Tages Zeitung  had been placed, picked up a copy carefully—so as not to soil his well-manicured fingers—and examined the front page. Then he folded the newspaper and extended it to the dog. “You hold it awhile, Max,” he said. “Your tongue is already black.” Then he turned and, resting both hands on the cane, carefully surveyed the lobby. He found what he was looking for—Sándor Tor—sitting in an armchair in a dark corner of the lobby. Kocian pointed his cane at arm’s length at Tor, not unlike a cavalry officer leading a charge, and walked quickly toward him. The dog, newspaper in his mouth, never left Kocian’s side. Six feet from Tor, Kocian stopped and, without lowering the cane, said, “Sándor, I distinctly remember telling you that I would not require your services anymore today and to go home.” A lesser man would have been cowed. Sándor Tor was not. As a young man, he had done a hitch in the French Foreign Legion and subsequently had never been cowed by anyone or anything. He pushed himself far enough out of the armchair to reach the dog’s head, scratched his ear...

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Praise for the Presidential Agent novels: "Punchy prose that connects like a right hook." -CHICAGO TRIBUNE "Griffin is well on his way to a credible American James Bond franchise. It's slick as hell." -MONSTERS AND CRITICS

Product details

• Authors: W. E. B. Griffin, W.E.B Griffin, W.E.B. Griffin
• Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2007
• EAN: 9780515143935
• ISBN: 978-0-515-14393-5
• No. of pages: 832
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 190 mm x 44 mm
• Series: Presidential Agent Novels; Presidential Agent Novels
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature