New York Times Bestselling Series
For three decades, Robert Ludlumâs bestselling novels have set the standard in almost every country in the world against which all other novels of international intrigue are measured. Now comes the latest volume in the series of novels featuring Robert Ludlumâs Covert-One
In the middle of the night, on the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer is recording cargo being secretly loaded when heâs brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Shortly thereafter Covert-One director Fred Klein brings the word to the President that thereâs a Chinese cargo ship rumored to be carrying tons of chemicals to be used by a rogue nation to create new biological weapons. The President cannot let the ship land and risk the consequences of a new stockpile of deadly chemical weapons. Klein is ordered to get the President solid proof of what the Chinese ship is ferrying.
Covert-One agent Jon Smith is sent to rendezvous in Taiwan with another agent who has acquired the shipâs true manifest. But before Smith can get the document, the two agents are ambushed, the second agent is murdered, the proof is destroyed, and Smith escapes with only his life, scant clues to mystery behind the cargo ship, and a verbal message---the Presidentâs biological father is still alive, held prisoner by the Chinese for fifty years. As the Chinese cargo ship draws ever closer to its end port, Smith must race against the clock to uncover the truth about the ship and its cargo, a truth that probes the deepest secrets of the Chinese ruling party, the faction in Washington working to undermine the elected government, and the international cabal who is thrusting the world to the very brink of war.
Categories:
- Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
- Thrillers & Suspense
- Spies & Politics
- Espionage
- Spies & Politics
- Thrillers & Suspense
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Author : Ludlum, Robert,Lynds, Gayle
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2003-06-17
Number Of Pages : 448
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0312289901
ISBN-13 : 9780312289904
Item weight : 1.05 lb
Dimensions : 1.2 in x 6.1 in x 8.9 in
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