The Lie - Softcover

Michael Weaver

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751518662 ISBN 13: 9780751518665

Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks, 1997

Synopsis

The U.S. president has decided to turn an international conference on human rights into the scene of his greatest triumph--but instead is taken hostage by a group prepared to kill for world peace. Paul Waters, an intelligence agent assigned to protect the president, joins forces with his lover, Kate Dinneson, to foil the plans of the extremist group and rescue American's leader. But can they stop the fanatics in time? And did the president plan his own kidnapping?

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From AudioFile:

Who is behind the bombings and threats at the Human Rights conference in Germany? Who is out to kill the President of the United States? Is any character capable of telling the truth, or even recognizing it? Herrmann provides a flawless performance of multilingual European characters who range from C.I.A. operatives to German and Italian terrorists. As tension mounts, so does the terseness of Herrmann's narration. The abridgment is seamless, glossing over the omissions as it allows the intrigue and mystery to unfold, but not necessarily the truth. M.B.K. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

From Kirkus Reviews:

A labyrinthine and loopy sequel to the pseudonymous Weaver's Deceptions (1995): Here, a hunky young painter who freelances for the CIA in Europe falls deeply in love with the idealistic journalist responsible for the murder of his parents. Having completed an undercover mission in Serbia, Paulie Walters comes home to the family villa overlooking the Bay of Naples to find the bodies of his mother and father (a sometime hit man for the American Mafia and US government). The two were inadvertently shot to death by Kate Dinneson, who had crept into the couple's bedroom of a summer's eve to query them about the circumstances in which Walters pŠre had gunned down her ultradical parents some two decades earlier. Time heals all wounds, however, and Paulie has no real problem forgiving luscious Kate her trespasses. Concurrently, the wider world's great and good have booked a conference on human rights into Wannsee, the Berlin venue where Hitler's henchmen planned the Holocaust. For base political reasons, US President Jimmy Dunster resolves to make a surprise appearance at the high-profile meeting--as does aging, guilt-ridden radical Klaus Logefeld (a professor at the University of Rome), who makes America's chief executive his hostage. Meanwhile, another assassin, working at the behest of the evil Vice President, bombs the site; the President survives, and Logefeld (who falls into an old sub-basement, where he dies) appears to have escaped. This suspicion is confirmed when Nicholas Vorelli, an ingratiating opportunist, assumes the dead man's mantle and demands a $100 million ransom, threatening further explosions. Following a demonstration blast, the money is delivered via credulous Kate, who believes Vorelli shares her utopian values. When it becomes clear he does not, the lethal young woman--with the help of an unaccountably besotted Paulie--takes matters into her own hands. . . . Far-fetched twaddle, in deadly earnest but notably lacking sympathetic characters, sophisticated dialogue, and suspense. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0751518662
• ISBN 13: 9780751518665
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480