A Loyal Spy
A Thriller
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- $27.99
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- $27.99
Publisher Description
Winner of the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, a Contemporary Spy Thriller for Fans of Brad Thor and John Le Carré.
The last time Jonah saw Nor ed-Din, he was lying face-down in a pool of icy water in the Khyber Pass. He thought he had killed him, but now the trail of betrayal has come full circle.
Friends since childhood, Jonah and Nor ed-Din had been groomed for the intelligence service, with Jonah as handler for Nor's penetration of ISI. But when Nor is cut loose after the Soviets are forced to withdraw from Afghanistan, the pattern of engagement and abandonment begins. Years later, when contact with Nor is revived to stage an off-the-books, multi-agency assassination attempt on Bin Laden that goes badly wrong, Jonah no longer knows who Nor is really working for—and whether he has simply taken revenge on his former countrymen in a private act of jihad.
In the aftermath of 9/11, the failed operation comes back to haunt its survivors, sowing mistrust when they most need CIA support. For, gradually, the outlines of a plot begin to emerge that takes Nor from the diamond fields of Africa to the mountains of Afghanistan and to the beating heart of London, where millions of lives are at stake.
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In Conway's stunning follow-up to Rage, a mission takes British spy Jonah Said, the son of a Palestinian scientist and an English barrister, to Sierra Leone in 2001. Jonah is investigating terrorists who are attempting to buy $20 million worth of smuggled diamonds; things go awry, and he finds himself held at gunpoint by Nor ed-Din, a spy he thought he killed a number of years before in the Khyber Pass. Jonah parts from Nor, knowing their differences will be settled another day. Years later, when Nor announces in an internet video that he's planning a spectacular attack, Jonah joins the effort to try to stop him and other terrorists from detonating a sunken WWII ship rigged with explosives in the Thames Estuary. The resulting explosion would create a tsunami that would destroy London. With its complex characters and plot, this thriller feels as if the author has channeled his considerable powers through le Carr by way of Tolstoy, and yet it remains uniquely his own. The final paragraph will give readers hope that they'll be seeing Jonah again in the future.
