- Intelligence officers, Fiction, Large type books, Fiction, thrillers, espionage
It begins at a movie studio in Nice where a police raid goes horribly wrong, killing innocent men, women, and even children. It continues in an English prison, where a dead man discloses an intriguing secret about the brutal criminal organization called the Union.
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Classical in form, resolved, unpretentious and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Raymond Benson
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 309
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Chivers Press, Penguin Publishing Group
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786183678
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“A tiny bead of sweat appeared at the commandant's right temple and lingered there, waiting for the moment when it would drop off and trickle down the man's high, scarred cheekbone.”
Raymond Benson is the author of over forty published books, including The Mad, Mad Murders Of Marigold Way (winner of the IPPY Gold Medal in Mystery, 2022), Blues in the Dark (2019), In The Hush of the Night (2018) and The Secrets on Chicory Lane (2017). Raymond is most well-known for being the third—and first American—author to be commissioned to write James Bond continuation novels. Six original works and three movie novelizations were published worldwide between 1997-2002. His debut 007 novel, Zero Minus Ten, is being reprinted in the UK in 2023. Raymond’s book The James Bond Bedside Companion, first published in 1984, was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award by Mystery Writers of Ameri
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