Absolute Risk
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
“Absolute Risk is the work of a talented writer who knows how to hook his readers from the opening line.”
—Richard North Patterson, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Witness
A new star in the thriller firmament, Steven Gore brings back investigator Graham Gage for a second assignment (after Final Target)—as Gage and his wife are caught up in the lethal machinations of a worldwide financial plot rooted in China. Absolute Risk, like its acclaimed predecessor, is an international thriller for grown-ups: riveting, surprising, intelligent, and frighteningly believable.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Gore's masterful second thriller featuring San Francisco PI Graham Gage (after Final Target), Gage's investigation of a former FBI agent's mysterious death puts him on the track of Hani Ibrahim, an MIT economist deported under suspicion of masterminding a scheme to funnel money to foreign terrorists. In rural China, an earthquake sparks a workers' uprising, complicating the efforts of Gage's wife, Faith, to rescue two Chinese friends from government forces in the area. As Gage gets closer to discovering that Ibrahim is behind a terrorist act that could destroy the world's economy, the detective's actions imperil Faith's safety further. When U.S. vice president Cooper Wallace, a devout evangelical, ascends to the presidency at the peak of a worldwide financial crisis, Wallace faces a faith-based dilemma: should he act to save the country if the economic disaster is part of God's larger plan for humanity? Sharp, smart writing and convincing economic detail put this in the front rank of genre fiction.
