Ballantine Books
April 1995
On Sale: April 1, 1995
Featuring: Ben Ellison; Molly Ellison
448 pages ISBN: 0345394364 EAN: 9780345394361 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
The news is shattering: Harrison Sinclair has been killed in
a car accident. While his daughter, Molly, and her husband,
Ben Ellison, mourn the tragedy of a powerful man cut down in
his prime, the realization slowly dawns that Sinclair's
death was no accident.
Harrison Sinclair was the director of the CIA.
Harrison Sinclair may have been a traitor—or the Agency's
last honest man.
Even his son-in-law, Ben, has heard rumors of sinister
forces within the Agency that could have ordered Sinclair's
assassination: Ben was an agent himself until a rendezvous
gone lethally wrong made him seek the safer waters of a
staid patent law practice in an old-line Boston firm.
But suddenly, with the free-falling acceleration of a
nightmare, Ben is thrust into a web of intrigue and violence
beyond his control, compelled by an artful, inescapable
maneuver back into the employ of the CIA, and lured into a
top-secret espionage project in telepathic ability funded by
American intelligence. As the project's first success, Ben
uses his "extraordinary powers" in the perilous search for
Vladimir Orlov, the exiled former chairman of the KGB—the
only man who might unlock the secret of Harrison Sinclair's
death and the whereabouts of a multibillion-dollar fortune
in gold spirited out of Russia in the last days of the
Soviet Union.
The hunt for the truth will rush Ben headlong from Roman
piazzas to a crumbling castle in Tuscany, from an
impenetrable steel-clad vault beneath Zurich's glittering
Bahnhofstrasse to an opulent spa in Germany's Black Forest,
and through the dangerous tunnels of the Paris Métro.
It is a chase that will bring Ben Ellison face to face with
his past and culminate in a crowded Washington hearing room
where, behind high security barriers, a Senate investigating
committee is about to call its secret witness….as an
assassin prepares to strike. Here, finally, with only
seconds to act, Ben Ellison must call upon his extraordinary
powers to stop a killer—or die trying.
Extraordinary Powers is a mesmerizing tale of suspense that
interweaves high-stakes financial intrigue with a terrifying
conspiracy conceived with icy precision deep within the
heart of American intelligence. It is a galvanizing and
masterful entertainment enriched by an insider's knowledge
of the world of international espionage, politics, and spy
tradecraft—truly an espionage novel for the nineties.
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