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Ministers of fire : a novel / Mark Harril Saunders.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saunders, Mark Harril.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations--Fiction.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Kabul, Afghanistan,1979: CIA station chief Lucius Burling, an idealistic but flawed product of his nation's intelligence establishment, barely survives the assassination of the American ambassador. Burling's reaction to the murder, and his desire to understand its larger meaning, propel him on a journey of intrigue and betrayal that will reach its ultimate end in the streets of Shanghai, months after 9/11. A Chinese dissident physicist may (or may not) be planning to sell his country's nuclear secrets, and in his story Burling, now living quietly as consul, recognizes the fingerprints of a co
- Contents:
- Prologue; Book One; Book Two; Book Three; Epilogue
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8040-4048-6
- OCLC:
- 884016934
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