Jericho's Fall: Signed*
by Carter, Stephen L
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0307272621
- ISBN 13
- 9780307272621
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Stephen L. Carter's brilliant debut, The Emperor of Ocean Park, spent eleven week son the New York Times best-seller list. Now, in Jericho's Fall, Carter turns his formidable talents to the shadowy world of spies, official secrecy, and financial fraud in a thriller that rivets the reader's attention until the very last page.In an imposing house in the Colorado Rockies, Jericho Ainsley, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and a Wall Street titan, lies dying. He summons to his beside Beck DeForde, the younger woman for whom he threw away his career years ago, miring them both in scandal. Beck believes she is visiting to say farewell. Instead, she is drawn into a battle over an explosive secret that foreign governments and powerful corporations alike want to wrest from Jericho before he dies.An intricate and timely thriller that plumbs the emotional depths of a failed love affair and a family torn apart by mistrust, Jericho's Fall takes us on a fast-moving journey through the secretive world of intelligence operations and the meltdown of the financial markets. And it creates, in Beck DeForde, an unforgettable heroine for our turbulent age.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005343
- Title
- Jericho's Fall: Signed*
- Author
- Carter, Stephen L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0307272621
- ISBN 13
- 9780307272621
- Publisher
- KNOPF
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Bookseller catalogs
- Espionage;
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