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Cargando... Secrets of Statepor Matthew Palmer
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Not as good as his first. Intelligent, but not as original as I had hoped for. ( ) Finding himself on the outside looking in as a government contractor, instead of being in the "in crowd," Sam Trainor finds that there is a lot of nasty hanky-panky going on in them there alphabet soup government agencies. What would be handy right now is someone who could defuse a nuke that has been tricked to trick the defuser. Is it true that there is a secret club of power junkies dedicated to maneuver historical events to benefit the USA according to their plan? They have been changing the course of politics and world events since George Washington was in training riding breeches? Well that would explain a lot if it were true. "Remember the Maine," "Who shot JR", I mean John Kennedy, and now India needs to wipe out Pakistan, it's nuclear capabilities and all the crazies therein. It has always been these self-important, "I know what's best for the US," morality police, control-freak bozos with their fingers on the button. It is a fascinating read from Mr. Palmer. My thanks to him and the Penguin First to Read program for a complimentary copy. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Fiction.
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Thriller.
HTML:An NPR Best Book of the Year From a veteran insider with over twenty years' experience in the U.S. Foreign Service comes a taut, insightful thriller of global intrigue and behind-the-scenes international politics. Sam Trainor's career of overseas work coupled with a penchant for being outspoken has left him on the outside of the competitive Washington establishment. Formerly the top South Asia expert in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Trainor has moved to the private sector, working as an analyst for the consulting firm Argus Systems. But Sam soon discovers that for all their similarities, the government and their hired contractors have vastly different motives. As he struggles to adjust to a more corporate, profit-driven version of the work that had been his life, he stumbles across an intelligence anomalyâ??the transcript of a phone conversation about the fastest ways to upend the delicate political balance keeping India and Pakistan from all-out war. Yet Sam knows that conversation can't have occurredâ??because he is having an affair with one of the alleged participants. As he digs into the source of this misinformation, he realizes that more is at stake than just bad intel. Someone is deliberately twisting the intelligence to stoke the simmering conflict between India and Pakistan, nuclear-armed rivals that have already fought multiple wars. And Sam's new employer could be up to its neck in it. From the Hardcover edition No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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