Dead Spy Running
(Sprache: Englisch)
The first in a new spy thriller trilogy, a combination of John Le Carré and )Jason Bourne(. A suspended MI6 officer must clear the name of his father, who was removed by the CIA, and find proof of a mole within MI6. 'A rip-roaring race of a read that never...
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The first in a new spy thriller trilogy, a combination of John Le Carré and )Jason Bourne(. A suspended MI6 officer must clear the name of his father, who was removed by the CIA, and find proof of a mole within MI6. 'A rip-roaring race of a read that never lets up until the finishing tape - and a bit beyond' Robert Goddard
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Re-inventing the spy story for the 21st Century. John Le Carre meets Jason Bourne! Daniel Marchant, a suspended MI6 officer, is running the London Marathon. He is also running out of time. A competitor is strapped with explosives. If he drops his pace, everyone around him will be killed, including the US ambassador to London. Marchant tries to thwart the attack, but is he secretly working for the terrorists? There are those in America who already suspect Marchant of treachery. Just like they suspected his late father, the former head of MI6, who was removed from his job by the CIA. Marchant is treated like an enemy combatant - rendition, waterboarding - but he has friends who are disillusioned with America's war on terror. Friends like Leila, his beautiful MI6 colleague and lover, and Sir Marcus Fielding, the new Chief who resents the White House's growing influence in Whitehall. On the run from the CIA, Marchant is determined to prove his father's innocence in a personal journeythat takes him from Wiltshire, via Poland, to India. It was here that the former MI6 chief once met with one of the world's most wanted terrorists, and where the new President of America is shortly to visit. But was that meeting proof of a mole within MI6 or the best penetration of Al Qaeda the West has ever had? And was Marchant's father the keeper of another, darker secret? In a compelling thriller that updates the spy novel for the 21st century -- think John Le Carre meets Jason Bourne - Marchant discovers the shocking realities of personal betrayal and national loyalty, and that love can be the biggest risk of all.
Autoren-Porträt von Jon Stock
Jon Stock studierte Englisch in Cambridge, schrieb nach dem Studium für fast alle renommierten Tageszeitungen Großbritanniens und war Radioredakteur bei der BBC. Seit 1998 ist er beim Daily Telegraph angestellt. Drei Jahre lang war er deren Auslandskorrespondent in Indien; seit seiner Rückkehr nach London ist er fester Mitarbeiter der Telegraph-Wochenendredaktion. Er lebt mit seiner Frau und den drei gemeinsamen Kindern in Wiltshire.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jon Stock
- 2010, 320 Seiten, Maße: 11 x 17,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: HarperCollins UK
- ISBN-10: 0007300719
- ISBN-13: 9780007300716
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Dead Spy Running is a rip-roaring race of a read that never lets up until the finishing tape - and a bit beyond." Robert Goddard "As elegant as le Carre and as cynical as the twenty-first century ... exactly what we need from a spy novel now." Lee Child "Smart, classy, and relentlessly gripping, Dead Spy Running grabs the reader and doesn't let go. I couldn't quit turning the pages -- like Daniel Marchant running the London marathon, I couldn't stop." Meg Gardiner "A Jason Bourne sweat-fest with George Smiley's brain" - Daily Telegraph "An elegant, unstoppable front runner of a spy thriller" - The Observer "Picks up more or less where Le Carre left off" - The Guardian "A compelling thriller" - Sunday Times "Its deliciously John Buchan-like hero could be chasing the 39 steps" - Daily Mail
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