When he is assigned to Paris, CIA officer Tommy Carmellini joins his old boss Jake Grafton on a bold mission: To locate a French intelligence agent who has secret investments in the Bank of Palestine. Together they work to unravel a tangle of espionage, deception, and murderโฆand develop an elaborate strategy to infiltrate the highest levels of Al Queda.
Meanwhile, the leaders of the G-8 industrialized nations will soon meet in Paris--an event that would make a tempting terrorist target. Throw into the mix the beautiful, clever daughter of the French ambassador to Washington and an Israeli spy or two, and the stage is set for a tour de force of deception and drama.
Soon Carmellini and Grafton unearth a horrifying plan to shake the West as never before. But can they stop the conspiracy without compromising the intelligence source that could bring down Al Queda once and for all?
From Publishers Weekly
In bestseller Coonts's assured new international thriller, Tommy Carmellini, the sardonic, laid-back CIA agent who became a star in 2004's Liars & Thieves, gets a shot at the big time in his second featured outing when he's asked to drop his routine work and help find out why the director of French intelligence is making large, secret investments in the Bank of Palestine. Tommy wonders if he's the right man for the job; his own espionage experience in France is limited to being "assistant passport officer at the embassy." When his controller tells him that the new head of European Ops asked for Tommy by name, it turns out to be the unretired Jake Grafton (the longtime star of his own Coonts series), described by Carmellini as "the toughest son of a bitch wearing shoe leather." With support from Grafton; an enigmatic, seductive CIA agent, Sarah Houston; and a nifty little electronic weapon that Coonts says is really being tested, Tommy zeroes in on the high-level traitor who could do himโand the worldโa lot of damage. (July)
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Review
"Coonts knows how to write and build suspenseโฆ a natural storyteller."--The New York Times Book Review
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"An assured international thriller."--Publishers Weekly
__"The prevailing spook mode shifts from cloak to dagger, and suddenly the guys they thought were watching their backs are aiming at them."--Kirkus Reviews
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"The Traitor contains layer upon layer of deceit and deceptionโฆplenty of fistfights and explosionsโฆ. Coonts's trademark excitement keep[s] the pages turning to the book's ultimate conclusion."--Bookreporter.com
"Vintage Coonts...plenty of action and intrigue."--Dallas Morning News on Liars & Thieves__