The Deceiver - Couverture rigide

Forsyth, Frederick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0593023463 ISBN 13 : 9780593023464

Editeur : Bantam Press, 1991

Synopsis

A thriller by the author of "The Day of the Jackal", "The Odessa File" and "The Dogs of War".

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Sam McCready is The Deceiver, one of the Secret Intelligence Service's most unorthodox and most valued operatives, a legend in his own time. The end of the cold war has, however, strengthened the hand of the Whitehall mandarins, to whom he seems about as controllable as Genghis Khan, so Sam is to have his fate decided at a special hearing.

As part of the proceedings, four of Sam's key operations are reviewed: a clandestine mission into east Germany in 1985 to contact the top Russian spy general Pankratin; the second involving a KGB colonel who wants to defect - but is he genuine? An audacious Qaddafi-inspired plot to ship arms to the IRA; and the fourth when McCready presided over the aftermath of political murder and mayhem in the Caribbean.

Following the world-wide triumph of the Negotiator, the master returns with a keenly perceptive view of British Intelligence in the eighties, featuring one of his most memorable characters - The Deceiver, Sam McCready.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Sam McCready serves Britain as Chief of Covert Operations for the Secret Intelligence Service. He's competent, dedicated, in his prime. Why then this push to get him out?

The options are painful -- early retirement or an administrative backwater. But he has one other option: it's a wild card, confrontational, risky.

Risky because McCready knows too much. He senses the move is more about destabilizing SIS than settling a score with him. Who wants him out, and why? And what happens if he refuses to go quietly?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bantam Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0593023463
• ISBN 13: 9780593023464
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible