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Also by Stephen L. Carter:

Back Channel, August 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
The Impeachment Of Abraham Lincoln, July 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
The Violence Of Peace, January 2011
Hardcover
Jericho's Fall, July 2009
Hardcover
Palace Council, July 2008
Hardcover
New England White, June 2008
Paperback
New England White, July 2007
Hardcover
The Emperor of Ocean Park, June 2007
Paperback
The Emperor of Ocean Park, June 2003
Trade Size (reprint)

JERICHO'S FALL
By: Stephen L. Carter

Knopf
July 2009
On Sale: July 14, 2009
378 pages
ISBN: 0307272621
EAN: 9780307272621
Hardcover
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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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