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- Liars and Thieves is Stephen Coonts as you've never seen him before-a story as chilling as it is unforgettable.
- About the Author: Stephen Coonts is the author of The Disciple, The Assassin, and the Deep Black and Saucers series, among many other bestsellers.
- 416 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Thrillers
- Series Name: Tommy Carmellini
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Book Synopsis
Liars and Thieves is Stephen Coonts as you've never seen him before-a story as chilling as it is unforgettable. Tommy Carmellini, a CIA operative who is unafraid to walk both sides of the law to attain his objective, uncovers a dark conspiracy that leads to the highest levels of the American government-and to a ruthless manipulator who will stop at nothing to keep a decades-old secret.
Liars and Thieves opens as Carmellini is sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in West Virginia's remote Allegheny Mountains, where top government operatives are debriefing a star defector: the ultimate KGB insider, a man with records on every operation and every dirty trick the shadowy intelligence agency has ever run, from Lenin to Putin. Carmellini arrives to find the guards shot dead and a ruthless team of commandos--American commandos--killing everyone in sight, then setting the house on fire. He escapes in a hail of bullets with what seems to be the sole survivor, a stunningly attractive translator who then steals his car, abandoning him, after a deadly mountain car chase. But one other person survived the massacre: The man whose fractured memory holds the KGB's most embarrassing secrets, including something for which someone will kill to keep it quiet. Carmellini teams up with his mentor, Admiral Jake Grafton, and together they track down the amnesiac defector. From there, the hunt is on as they become the target of a lethal squad of killers who can only be taking direction from someone very close to the president. From a bloody ambush at a posh Virginia estate, to assassinations on the decaying streets of inner city Washington, to a makeshift safe house at Grafton's Delaware summer home, no place is outside the ruthless conspiracy's reach. Carmellini and Grafton must learn to tell friend from foe as they fight their way through a poisonous wilderness of intrigue, all the way to a presidential convention in New York City-and to the surprising identity of someone standing on the verge of absolute power who has jeopardized the safety of the entire nation to prevent a dark secret from ever seeing the light of day.Review Quotes
"Readers accustomed to having series hero Jake Grafton save the world every year (Liberty, Cuba, etc), may be disappointed to learn he's retired--but they won't fret for long. Former Grafton sidekick Tommy Carmellini, ex-burglar and CIA operative has been promoted to star in what's sure to be another excellent, long-lived series.... Tommy is smart, brave, skilled and possessed of enough self-deprecating, wise-cracking wit to endear him to readers." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
About the Author
Stephen Coonts is the author of The Disciple, The Assassin, and the Deep Black and Saucers series, among many other bestsellers. His first novel, the classic flying tale Flight of the Intruder, spent more than six months at the top of the New York Times bestseller list. A motion picture based on the book was released in 1991. His novels have been published around the world and translated into more than a dozen languages. In 1986, he was honored by the U.S. Naval Institute with its Author of the Year Award. He is also the editor of four anthologies, Combat, On Glorious Wings, Victoryand War in the Air. Coonts served in the Navy from 1969 to 1977, including two combat cruises on the USS Enterprise during the last years of the Vietnam War.Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x .93 Inches (D)
Weight: .99 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Tommy Carmellini
Sub-Genre: Thrillers
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 416
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Theme: Espionage
Format: Paperback
Author: Stephen Coonts
Language: English
Street Date: May 3, 2005
TCIN: 90823074
UPC: 9781250093264
Item Number (DPCI): 247-48-1092
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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