Sphere of Influence - Hardcover

Kyle Mills

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786250909 ISBN 13: 9780786250905

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2003

Synopsis

A New York Times Bestseller

Years of putting truth ahead of protocol have left Mark Beamon in a dead-end job with the FBI, until threatened attacks on civilian targets pull him back to the front lines. Suspecting a connection between the threats and the Mob, Beamon spirals into a world of drug trafficking, corruption, murder and betrayal.

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About the Author

Kyle Mills is the author of Sphere of Influence, Burn Factor, Free Fall, Storming Heaven, and Rising Phoenix.

From Booklist

*Starred Review* FBI agent Mark Beamon was once considered the best investigator in the bureau. He also set new standards for ignoring protocol and embarrassing his superiors. That's why his career is stalled in middle-management hell as the head of the Bureau's Phoenix office. Then he gets a call from his former lover, Laura Vilechi, who is the lead FBI investigator in a new al-Qaeda crisis. The terrorists have cobbled together a rocket launcher inside the U.S and also have four operational rockets. She needs Mark's investigative skills to find the launcher before hundreds, maybe thousands, of Americans are killed in a September 11 redux. The lead she has Mark follow trails back through a botched drug deal and eventually places him undercover in the Russian crime organization run by Christian Volkov. It's there he learns that the CIA, employing its standard tortured logic, laid the groundwork for the latest al-Qaeda plot by disrupting the world heroin market. Beamon and Volkov form an uneasy alliance in which he will help Beamon discover the launcher location if Beamon will help him retain control of the heroin market. This is a brilliant modern crime thriller with a byzantine--yet believable--plot, a plucky hero, and villains who manipulate world events from their lofty positions in government. Mills does the large-scale thriller better than anyone else working the genre today. As a matter of fact, he may do it better than anyone who's ever sent a character out to save the world. Wes Lukowsky
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Edition details

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786250909
• ISBN 13: 9780786250905
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 599