A Conspiracy of Angels - Hardcover

Ross, Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0689118538 ISBN 13: 9780689118531

Publisher: Atheneum, 1987

After Lucas Carfield is hired to engineer the safe passage to America of Larry Bartell, a dissident in exile in Europe, he is lead into the heart of a conspiracy with an unsuspected ringmaster in Moscow

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From Publishers Weekly:

Luke Garfield, spy hero of The 65th Tape, is called out of retirement to repatriate Larry Bartel, a charismatic professor who stirred up a maelstrom of anti-government feeling before leaving the U.S., one step ahead of a jail term, to float around Europe as a third-string spy with a taste for the bottle. Now dying from cirrhosis, he'd like to come back home. But why would the U.S. want him, wonders an equally diminished Garfield, prone to sentiment and snappishness as he feints at the shadow behind the deal. The conspiracy involves U.S. corporations abroad, a name from the past with a line to the KGB and a group of presidential advisers who take a hard stand on international terrorism. The seamy flavor is on target, but tiresome stock characters weigh down the suspense.
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From Library Journal:

Lucas Garfield knows that being a spy is risky business, because he used to be one. When he is called out of retirement to help another spy return to America from a European exile, he learns that the rules haven't changed: there are no official ones, because the government can't acknowledge or support undercover missions. When a near-disastrous bombing and other curious events raise questions, he finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy with multiple links between double-dealing U.S. bureaucrats and Soviet headquarters in Moscow. The author takes the reader on a fast-paced, suspenseful adventure where the good and bad characters frequently turn out to be other than what the clues lead one to assume. Recommended. Will Hepfer, SUNY at Buffalo Libs.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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