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PublisherSt. Martin's Press

ISBN-100312283628

ISBN-139780312283629

eBay Product ID (ePID)30236671

Product Key Features

Book TitleLiars and Thieves

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicThrillers / Espionage, Thrillers / Suspense

Publication Year2004

FeaturesRevised

GenreFiction

AuthorStephen Coonts

Book SeriesTommy Carmellini Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight24.4 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2003-069771

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Readers accustomed to having series hero Jake Grafton save the world every year ( Liberty , Cuba , etc), may be disappointed to learn he's retired -- but they won't fret for long. Former Grafton sidekick Tommy Carmellini, ex-burglar and CIA operative has been promoted to star in what's sure to be another excellent, long-lived series...Tommy is smart, brave, skilled and possessed of enough self-deprecating, wise-cracking wit to endear him to readers. Jake Grafton makes an appearance to help save the day, but Tommy proves himself more than capable of saving the world on his own." - Publishers Weekly (starred review), "Readers accustomed to having series hero Jake Grafton save the world every year (Liberty,Cuba, etc), may be disappointed to learn he's retired -- but they won't fret for long. Former Grafton sidekick Tommy Carmellini, ex-burglar and CIA operative has been promoted to star in what's sure to be another excellent, long-lived series...Tommy is smart, brave, skilled and possessed of enough self-deprecating, wise-cracking wit to endear him to readers. Jake Grafton makes an appearance to help save the day, but Tommy proves himself more than capable of saving the world on his own." -Publishers Weekly(starred review)

Series Volume Number1

Dewey Decimal813.54

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisLiars and Thieves is Stephen Coonts as you've never seen him before-a story as chilling as it is unforgettable. Tommy Carmellini, a CIA operative who is unafraid to walk both sides of the law to attain his objective, uncovers a dark conspiracy that leads to the highest levels of the American government-and to a ruthless manipulator who will stop at nothing to keep a decades-old secret., Liars and Thieves is Stephen Coonts as you've never seen him before-a story as chilling as it is unforgettable. Tommy Carmellini, a CIA operative who is unafraid to walk both sides of the law to attain his objective, uncovers a dark conspiracy that leads to the highest levels of the American government-and to a ruthless manipulator who will stop at nothing to keep a decades-old secret. Liars and Thieves opens as Carmellini is sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in West Virginia's remote Allegheny Mountains, where top government operatives are debriefing a star defector: the ultimate KGB insider, a man with records on every operation and every dirty trick the shadowy intelligence agency has ever run, from Lenin to Putin.Carmellini arrives to find the guards shot dead and a ruthless team of commandos - American commandos - killing everyone in sight, then setting the house on fire. He escapes in a hail of bullets with what seems to be the sole survivor, a stunningly attractive translator who then steals his car, abandoning him, after a deadly mountain car chase.But one other person survived the massacre: The man whose fractured memory holds the KGB's most embarrassing secrets, including something for which someone will kill to keep it quiet. Carmellini teams up with his mentor, Admiral Jake Grafton, and together they track down the amnesiac defector. From there, the hunt is on as they become the target of a lethal squad of killers who can only be taking direction from someone very close to the president.From a bloody ambush at a posh Virginia estate, to assassinations on the decaying streets of inner city Washington, to a makeshift safe house at Grafton's Delaware summer home, no place is outside the ruthless conspiracy's reach.Carmellini and Grafton must learn to tell friend from foe as they fight their way through a poisonous wilderness of intrigue, all the way to a presidential convention in New York City-and to the surprising identity of someone standing on the verge of absolute power who has jeopardized the safety of the entire nation to prevent a dark secret from ever seeing the light of day.

LC Classification NumberPS3553.O5796L525