The Gun Runner's Daughter
A Novel
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
In 1995, Neil Gordon's Sacrifice of Isaac was one of the most acclaimed novels of the year. Newsday said it "immediately vaults Gordon into the company of John le Carré and Graham Greene." The Washington Post called it "one of those rare works of fiction that are both edifying and almost sinfully pleasurable." The San Francisco Chronicle described it as "the best kind of page-turner."
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Now Neil Gordon returns with The Gun Runner's Daughter, an equally compelling tale of moral and psychological suspense, the story of two lawyers who fall in love while they are on opposite sides of an arms-dealing scandal.
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For twenty-seven years, Allison Rosenthal has lived the life of the liberal elite, from summers in Martha's Vineyard to her studies at Yale. But when her father is indicted on federal charges and his profession--arms dealing--is exposed to public scrutiny, her placid life changes radically. And when her secret childhood lover is named as her father's prosecuting attorney, she must decide where her loyalties lie in a trial that is rocking the presidential administration.
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Does family come before politics? Love before law? Truth before loyalty? These are the questions the gun runner's daughter must face as she tries to negotiate the dangerous and murky world of her father's profession and the ambiguous morality of power politics in America and Israel. In this audaciously entertaining intellectual thriller, Neil Gordon brings the personal and political together with the mastery of a great storyteller.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The complexity of the illegal arms trade comes to life in Gordon's chilling, richly intelligent second novel (after Sacrifice of Isaac). When Allison--nee Esther Rosenthal--learns that her father, the self-made New York representative of an Israeli weapons manufacturer, has been arrested for illegally selling arms to the Bosnian Muslims, her comfortable, sophisticated life (NYU Law School, summers on Martha's Vineyard) is totally upended. Not only does the case dominate the headlines, but the lead prosecutor against her father turns out to be a secret lover from her youth, a complication that forces her to make difficult choices about sacrifice and love. Furthermore, intrepid journalist Nicky Dymityck, who broke the story about her father, tries to get incriminating information from Allison about one of her father's colleagues who is running for the Senate. While addressing the complex ramifications of an international weapons free-for-all, Gordon creates an appealing heroine reminiscent of the biblical Esther--to whom he refers throughout the text--who must grapple with such compelling issues as familial loyalty, sibling incest, murder, the test of genuine friendship and the temptation to manipulate true love itself. In combining the riveting suspense of a political thriller with a character's evolution as the world around her changes dramatically, he adroitly manages an intricate page-turning plot, three-dimensional characters, unflagging suspense, intrigue and ardent romance in a narrative that will surely win a wide audience. Author tour.
