The Intercom Conspiracy (Quiet Conspiracy)

✍ Scribed by Ambler, Eric

• Book ID: 107820522
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 192 KB
• Series: Charles Latimer 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307950062

✦ Synopsis

Thirty years after Eric Ambler introduced the world to his unlikely hero, the academic and novelist Charles Latimer, in A Coffin for Dimitrios , Latimer returns in The Intercom Conspiracy.

Now a successful, bestselling author on the trail of a new book, Latimer steps up to help Theodore Carter, the hapless, hard-drinking editor of Intercom , a small, international political newspaper, investigate his bosses. When the paper's owner suddenly died, it was purchased by the chief intelligence officers of two minor NATO countries. The frazzled editor dutifully publishes the material provided by his new bosses, not realizing that his intelligence bulletins, formerly rumors at best and fictions at worst, have become a lot more truthful and more dangerous. Presently Carter finds he has some new readers as well, not all of whom are happy with his recent stories--and many of whom will go to any lengths to keep their secrets safe, whether that requires shutting...