Allan Folsom
Language: English
ISBN
Fiction:Thriller
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: Nov 30, 2010
Bestseller Folsom's improbable sequel to his equally improbable The Machiavelli Covenant (2006) takes ex-LAPD detective Nicholas Marten, who's trying to create a new life for himself as a landscape architect in England, to Equatorial Guinea, at the behest of the U.S. president, John Henry Harris, who became his confidante in the previous book. In a village on the island of Bioko, Marten meets Willy Dorhn, a 78-year-old German-born priest, who shows him photos of rebels being armed by members of a U.S. security firm hired to protect American oil workers. Soon after, soldiers who serve the impoverished country's brutal dictator attack the village, leaving Dorhn dead and Marten a fugitive. Marten's efforts to report what he's learned to people he can trust lead him to Germany and Portugal. Readers expecting a nuanced look at corruption in sub-Saharan Africa in the vein of John le Carré's The Constant Gardener will be disappointed. (Nov.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
“Folsom sets a frenetic pace from the start . . . reading this book is like watching 24.” —_The Tampa Tribune_
“High impact thriller writing with an almost visceral impact.”—_Publishers Weekly_
“More twists and turns than a strand of DNA.”—William Peter Blatty, New York Times bestselling author of Dimiter
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From Publishers Weekly
Bestseller Folsom's improbable sequel to his equally improbable The Machiavelli Covenant (2006) takes ex-LAPD detective Nicholas Marten, who's trying to create a new life for himself as a landscape architect in England, to Equatorial Guinea, at the behest of the U.S. president, John Henry Harris, who became his confidante in the previous book. In a village on the island of Bioko, Marten meets Willy Dorhn, a 78-year-old German-born priest, who shows him photos of rebels being armed by members of a U.S. security firm hired to protect American oil workers. Soon after, soldiers who serve the impoverished country's brutal dictator attack the village, leaving Dorhn dead and Marten a fugitive. Marten's efforts to report what he's learned to people he can trust lead him to Germany and Portugal. Readers expecting a nuanced look at corruption in sub-Saharan Africa in the vein of John le Carré's The Constant Gardener will be disappointed. (Nov.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Review
“Folsom sets a frenetic pace from the start . . . reading this book is like watching 24.” —_The Tampa Tribune_
“High impact thriller writing with an almost visceral impact.”—_Publishers Weekly_
“More twists and turns than a strand of DNA.”—William Peter Blatty, New York Times bestselling author of Dimiter