Taking Morgan: A Political Thriller
Autor David Roseen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 noi 2015
“A smartly paced political thriller.” —Observer
Morgan Cooper has always found it difficult to balance her home life—mother of two young children and wife of a workaholic civil rights lawyer—with her work life as an undercover CIA officer.
When Morgan gets stressed, anxious, or scared, whether at home or in the field, she tends to talk to herself until she can clear her head. This habit, though, puts her life in danger during an assignment in the strife-torn Gaza Strip.
After leaving home posing as a diplomat, Morgan meets her contact, Abdel Nasser, and the two begin monitoring the warring Fatah and Hamas factions. On the Strip, the betrayals and contradictions of her personal and working lives catch up with her. Soon, Morgan and Nasser are kidnapped by an extremist organization with links to al-Qaeda.
When Adam, Morgan’s husband, receives word of her kidnapping, he is assured by Morgan’s bosses at the CIA that the organization is doing everything they can to find his wife. When days pass with no developments or new information, Adam decides to look for Morgan on his own.
Inspired by actual events, Taking Morgan is a gripping novel of political intrigue and suspense. It is also the deeply affecting story of a modern couple struggling with their marriage, suddenly at risk of losing each other forever.
Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Morgan Cooper has always found it difficult to balance her home life—mother of two young children and wife of a workaholic civil rights lawyer—with her work life as an undercover CIA officer.
When Morgan gets stressed, anxious, or scared, whether at home or in the field, she tends to talk to herself until she can clear her head. This habit, though, puts her life in danger during an assignment in the strife-torn Gaza Strip.
After leaving home posing as a diplomat, Morgan meets her contact, Abdel Nasser, and the two begin monitoring the warring Fatah and Hamas factions. On the Strip, the betrayals and contradictions of her personal and working lives catch up with her. Soon, Morgan and Nasser are kidnapped by an extremist organization with links to al-Qaeda.
When Adam, Morgan’s husband, receives word of her kidnapping, he is assured by Morgan’s bosses at the CIA that the organization is doing everything they can to find his wife. When days pass with no developments or new information, Adam decides to look for Morgan on his own.
Inspired by actual events, Taking Morgan is a gripping novel of political intrigue and suspense. It is also the deeply affecting story of a modern couple struggling with their marriage, suddenly at risk of losing each other forever.
Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781634502498
ISBN-10: 1634502493
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: SKYHORSE PUBLISHING
Colecția Skyhorse Publishing
ISBN-10: 1634502493
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: SKYHORSE PUBLISHING
Colecția Skyhorse Publishing
Recenzii
"Taking Morgan brings the reader into the secret worlds of Gaza, Salafi terrorist groups, and the CIA and delivers edge of the seat drama in the process. Like David Ignatius or Graham Greene, Rose’s fiction is rendered with the journalist’s attention to exact detail. Once you get sucked in, it's hard to put down." —Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
“A smartly paced political thriller.” —Observer
“Rose shuttles frantically but effectively between different worlds, ratcheting up the tension.” —Guardian
“You can almost taste the dust of the streets, smell the explosions, and feel the fear that grips his female protagonist Morgan Cooper.” —Daily Mail
“A smartly paced political thriller.” —Observer
“Rose shuttles frantically but effectively between different worlds, ratcheting up the tension.” —Guardian
“You can almost taste the dust of the streets, smell the explosions, and feel the fear that grips his female protagonist Morgan Cooper.” —Daily Mail
Notă biografică
David Rose has written extensively on intelligence and covert action by agencies all over the world for more than twenty years. He’s been a contributing editor with Vanity Fair since 2002, and on staff at the Guardian, Observer, and BBC. He currently writes investigative articles for the Mail on Sunday. The author of six nonfiction books, he’s been shortlisted for the Crimewriters’ Association Golden Dagger and won the Trento Mountain Literature Festival grand prize. He resides in Oxford, England.