The Altman Code : A Covert One Novel - First Printing

Robert Ludlum

ISBN 10: 0752857517 / ISBN 13: 9780752857510

Published by Orion, 2003

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Publisher: Orion
Year: 2003
ISBN: 0752857517
Printer's Key: First published in Great Britain in 2003 by Orion Books
Condition: FINE
Printing: 1st UK Printing
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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Altman Code : A Covert One Novel - First Printing
• Publisher: Orion
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0752857517
• ISBN 13: 9780752857510
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 16.2W x 24.4H x 4.2D centimeters 16.2 centimeters width by 24.4 centimeters height by 4.2 centimeters depth
• Weight: 767 grams

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Synopsis

On the dark waterside docks of Shanghai, a photographer records cargo being secretly loaded. He's brutally killed and his camera destroyed. Two weeks later on the dangerous high seas, the U.S. Navy covertly tracks a Chinese ship rumored to carry tons of chemicals for Saddam Hussein to create new biological weapons. The President cannot let the ship reach Iraq. At the same time, he doesn't want the navy to attack and board it either, because decades of negotiations with China have at long last yielded a landmark human rights agreement that China is willing to sign. The President orders Fred Klein, head of Covert One, to find solid proof of what the Chinese ship is ferrying. Operative Col. Jon Smith is sent to rendezvous in Taiwan with another agent who has acquired the ship's true manifest. But the second agent is murdered, the proof is destroyed, and Smith is left only with a verbal message - the President's biological father is still alive, held a prisoner by the Chinese for fifty years. Smith must find the truth about the ship, a truth that probes the deepest secrets of the Chinese ruling party...

About the Author

After a successful career in the theatre, Robert Ludlum launched his career as a bestselling writer with THE SCARLATTI INHERITANCE in 1971, the first of twenty-three consecutive international bestsellers. Gayle Lynds is the co-author of two previous Covert-One novels as well as several bestselling thrillers of her own. Gayle Lynds is the co-author of three Covert-One novels and is the author of several bestselling thrillers.