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Knopf
July 2009
On Sale: July 14, 2009
378 pages
ISBN: 0307272621
EAN: 9780307272621
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Non-Fiction
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.
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