The Hadrian Memorandum
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Publisher Description
NICHOLAS MARTEN has come face-to-face with the world's most dangerous men. Among them -- dark forces within the detective ranks of the Los Angeles Police Department and murderous agents of a secret global alliance that goes back centuries and involves those at the highest ranks of political power and economic influence. As such Marten is a man on the run, constantly in fear for his life. He has no one to trust except the one man who may be his only true friend… John Henry Harris, the president of the United States.
Now Marten finds himself pitted against ruthless Texas oil barons fronted by homicidal mercenaries led by a psychotic killer, a former, highly decorated British commando. What he knows puts him in the crosshairs of massive international conspiracy. At stake is an ocean of oil. Its cost -- thousands of human lives. Behind it -- a top secret agreement known as The Hadrian Memorandum.
About the Author: A New York Times best-selling author, Allan Folsom grew up in Massachusetts. He has worked in the Hollywood entertainment industry as a film editor, cameraman, producer of documentary films, script doctor, television and screen writer. He has also been a delivery boy, truck driver, bartender, hotel manager and creator/manager/co-owner of one the first major discotheques in America. He lives in California.
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 Carr 's The Constant Gardener will be disappointed.
Customer Reviews
The Hadrian Memoranum
Having read The Day after Tomorrow and the Exile, I was a little apprehensive. But this book is equally as good and I had a job putting it down. Allan's story telling keeps you engrossed page after page. Thank you