In her acclaimed debut, The Cutout, former CIA
analyst Francine Mathews defined a world of intrigue where
only the savvy survive. Now, in The Secret Agent,
Mathews propels us deep into the baffling history of a
maverick American’s glittering life and his sudden,
cataclysmic disappearance…. Here is the masterful story of
secret agents of many kinds--in a realm where truth is the
most dangerous secret of all.
Who was Jack Roderick?
Trained by the OSS, Jack Roderick plummeted into
Bangkok one rainy morning in 1945 and never left. Silk
King, pirate, ruthless collector of beautiful objects--
especially women--Roderick was feared and respected as a
foreign spy, a business kingpin, and a trader in men’s
souls. And then, at the height of the Vietnam War, caught
in a killing web of treachery and revenge that would
determine the fate of his only son, Rory, Jack Roderick
walked into the jungle…and vanished from the face of the
earth.
Four decades later, can the mystery be
solved?
International fund manager Stefani Fogg is
recruited by a man whose job it is to know the unknowable.
Wealthy beyond corruption, impervious to romance, and
equipped with a mind that can crack any enigma, Stefani
signs up for the adventure of a lifetime: playing Secret
Agent to Max Roderick, grandson of Bangkok’s long-vanished
Legendary American. A world-class skier tangled in a
sordid Thai murder investigation, Max is consumed with the
riddle of Jack Roderick’s disappearance--and with his own
father’s death in the jungles of Vietnam.
Seduced
by Max’s charm and intrigued by his family history,
Stefani ignores the warning signs and follows her heart.
But when Max’s quarrel with the Thai police turns deadly
and a killer strikes, she knows she must return to the
place where it all began, to unravel the lies, penetrate a
deadly conspiracy, and expose a killing truth. She flees
Max’s France for Bangkok’s khlongs--into the ruins of the
Silk King’s dark past and the mesmerizing shadow of the
Roderick family curse. What she finds, in Jack Roderick’s
story and in the fate of his fighter-pilot son, is an
American dream that crashed and burned in the rice paddies
of Vietnam and a chilling legacy that haunts our own to
this day.
Propelling us masterfully through half a
century, from Manhattan to the Alps to the colorful and
treacherous heart of Bangkok, and based on the life of
American expatriate Jim Thompson, The Secret Agent
is at once a murder mystery, a touching love story, and a
lavishly atmospheric journey through the exotic landscape
of love and history--an historical thriller of the first
rank.
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