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Paul Walters had followed his father's professional footsteps as a freelance 'fixer' for the CIA in Europe, so when his parents are assassinated in their own home he automatically turns to his contacts to try and trace the killer. His search leads him to Italy where a respected German academic appears to be the prime mover behind a fanatical scheme to bring peace to the world's warring nations and removing Paul's father was his opening shot. Paul gets wind of the man's plan to wreck an international summit due to be held in Berlin but unbeknownst to both men the Vice-President of the USA, in collusion with the Deputy Director of the CIA, have their own reason to disrupt the heavyweight meeting - killing the President! Unable to trust anyone, battling against both the power-hungry and a moral maniac, Paul has to rely on his own skills to prevent either side reaching their target...
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Michael Weaver is a pseudonym
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The Lie
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Warner Books 0, 1998
ISBN 10 : 0751521361
ISBN 13 : 9780751521368
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Etat : Used - Very Good. Product DescriptionThe U.S. president has decided to turn an international conference on human rights into the scene of his greatest triumph--but instead is taken hostage by a group prepared to kill for world peace. Paul Waters, an intelligence agent assigned to protect the president, joins forces with his lover, Kate Dinneson, to foil the plans of the extremist group and rescue American's leader. But can they stop the fanatics in time? And did the president plan his own kidnapping?From Library JournalWeaver left no question about his King Kong status among thriller writers with his first two novels (e.g., Deception, LJ 3/1/95). In this latest, an endangered U.S. president, taken hostage by crazies at an international conference on human rights, is aided by a journalist and an intelligence agent.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.From AudioFileWho is behind the bombings and threats at the Human Rights conference in Germany? Who is out to kill the President of the United States? Is any character capable of telling the truth, or even recognizing it? Herrmann provides a flawless performance of multilingual European characters who range from C.I.A. operatives to German and Italian terrorists. As tension mounts, so does the terseness of Herrmann's narration. The abridgment is seamless, glossing over the omissions as it allows the intrigue and mystery to unfold, but not necessarily the truth. M.B.K. (c)AudioFile, Portland, MaineFrom Kirkus ReviewsA labyrinthine and loopy sequel to the pseudonymous Weaver's Deceptions (1995): Here, a hunky young painter who freelances for the CIA in Europe falls deeply in love with the idealistic journalist responsible for the murder of his parents. Having completed an undercover mission in Serbia, Paulie Walters comes home to the family villa overlooking the Bay of Naples to find the bodies of his mother and father (a sometime hit man for the American Mafia and US government). The two were inadvertently shot to death by Kate Dinneson, who had crept into the couple's bedroom of a summer's eve to query them about the circumstances in which Walters p?re had gunned down her ultradical parents some two decades earlier. Time heals all wounds, however, and Paulie has no real problem forgiving luscious Kate her trespasses. Concurrently, the wider world's great and good have booked a conference on human rights into Wannsee, the Berlin venue where Hitler's henchmen planned the Holocaust. For base political reasons, US President Jimmy Dunster resolves to make a surprise appearance at the high-profile meeting--as does aging, guilt-ridden radical Klaus Logefeld (a professor at the University of Rome), who makes America's chief executive his hostage. Meanwhile, another assassin, working at the behest of the evil Vice President, bombs the site; the President survives, and Logefeld (who falls into an old sub-basement, where he dies) appears to have escaped. This suspicion is confirmed when Nicholas Vorelli, an ingratiating opportunist, assumes the dead man's mantle and demands a $100 million ransom, threatening further explosions. Following a demonstration blast, the money is delivered via credulous Kate, who believes Vorelli shares her utopian values. When it becomes clear he does not, the lethal young woman--with the help of an unaccountably besotted Paulie--takes matters into her own hands. . . . Far-fetched twaddle, in deadly earnest but notably lacking sympathetic characters, sophisticated dialogue, and suspense. --Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.From BooklistWeaver's thriller packs a wallop for all 400 of its action-packed pages. It tells the story of Kate Dinneson, the daughter of World War II Resistance fighters who were killed in an ambush. Years later, Kate tracks down the killers, planning revenge. Stuff happens: she falls in love with the son of her parents' murderers; a trusted colleague tries to blackmail her; her other lover--not the. N° de réf. du vendeur A2-WVRU-OBL6
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The Lie
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ISBN 10 : 0751521361
ISBN 13 : 9780751521368
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Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Good. 438 pages. 240 grams. This book is in good condition marked only by old pricing, in pencil, on first page; light wear to cover. 'The eyes of the world's media are trained on the international conference on Human Rights at Wannsee - infamous for its associations withthe Conception of the Final Solution. What they cannot see are the powerful intrigues underlying the meeting which will lead to unimaginable deception and betrayal. In fact, the entire conference is a lie. Paul Walters, a professional artist and second generation US Intelligence Agent, is there to co-ordinate the security for the ailing President Dunster. Kate Dinneson is attending as an accredited journalist and also to help an old friend realise his idealistic objectives. Paul and Kate are connected to each other by their violent family histories, and in spite of this they have become lovers. Dunster is determined to make this summit his final triumph, but he is totally unaware that his Vice-President and Deputy Intelligence Director plan to use that triumph to meet their own ends. And unknown to all of them is the plan of Kate's old friend to hi-jack the conference for his own fanatical vision for world peace - an aim he will do anything to achieve, even kidnapping the American President in the full glare of publicity.' 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction, Mystery.; Fiction, International Intrigue. ISBN: 0751521361. ISBN/EAN: 9780751521368. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001521. N° de réf. du vendeur 001521
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