The Marching Season (Random House Large Print) - Softcover

Silva, Daniel

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9780375706387: The Marching Season (Random House Large Print)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375706380 ISBN 13: 9780375706387

Publisher: Random House Large Print, 1999

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An embittered ex-CIA agent, Michael Osbourne is drawn into the troubled peace of Northern Ireland when his father-in-law, ex-Senator Douglas Cannon, is appointed ambassador to Britain and becomes the target of ruthless assassin Jean-Paul Delaroche

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"Almost unbearable tension...[the] prose urges you on like a silencer poking at the small of your back."

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"Almost unbearable tension...[the] prose urges you on like a silencer poking at the small of your back."--Entertainment Weekly

"[A] Tom Clancy-esque thriller."--USA Today

"Ingenious."--The Washington Post

"Fascinating...a novel of plots and counterplots...The relationship between Osbourne and October is rich in detail and complexity."--The Orlando Sentinel
"Rousing...Movie-tense action sequences [and] a hero worth rooting for."--Kirkus Reviews
"Starting with a bang and escalating from there, Silva's latest has everything you would expect from a thriller."--The Rocky Mountain News

Book Description:

A brilliantly tense what-if thriller about the sabotage of the Ulster peace process.

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