Weaponized
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- 45,00 kr
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- 45,00 kr
Publisher Description
Kyle West is a wanted man. The United States government think he's leaked secrets at the highest level, and they'll stop at nothing to find him. He's managed to escape to Cambodia, but he can't relax, can't stop looking over his shoulder. He just wants to find a way home.
So when he meets Julian Robinson - a man with his own reasons to run, who's willing to swap passports with him - Kyle thinks his luck might finally be changing.
He's wrong.
Because Julian Robinson isn't who he claims to be.
And now he's been dragged into a world of violence and death, of Russian oligarchs, Chinese operatives and CIA officials, time is running out for Kyle to find out who he really is...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Memorable prose distinguishes Mennuti and Guggenheim's excellent first novel. American Kyle West, a software genius whose algorithms linking the 9/11 terrorists impressed the U.S. intelligence community, has sought refuge in Phnom Penh, Cambodia (a city that, at night, resembles "the love child of Blade Runner and Rudyard Kipling"), after he and his boss, Christopher Chandler, become the objects of a Senate investigation. A stranger, Julian Robinson, offers a way out of life on the run by proposing that he and West swap identities, but of course things soon go awry. The authors have their fingers on the pulse of contemporary life, trenchantly observing, for example, that revolutions are outdated, because "when the revolution finally figures out what it wants, it's already too late the opposition has factored it into its own plan." That sophistication extends to the plot and characters as well, making this the rare suspense novel that will genuinely surprise jaded genre readers.