Smoke Screen: A Novel - Hardcover

Patrick, Vincent

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688155367 ISBN 13: 9780688155360

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1999

Synopsis

The author of The Pope of Greenwich Village pits a CIA agent against a renegade doctor who smuggles a deadly virus out of the Angolan jungle and threatens to unleash it on America if his demands are not satisfied.

About this title

About the Author:

Vincent Patrick has a work background appropriate for a novelist’s book jacket. Born in the Bronx, New York, he finished both high school and engineering college at night and has had a remarkable range of jobs. He’s been a door-to-door Bible salesman, bartender, restaurant owner, Standard-bred Pacer owner, vice-president of an engineering consulting firm, teacher in a community college (writing fiction in the off-hours from his late teens.) After the publication of his first novel, The Pope of Greenwich village, he wrote screenplays for many years, including the script for the movie of Pope of Greenwich Village (with Micky Rouark and Eric Roberts) and for the movie of his second novel, Family Business (Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman and Mathew Broderick, Directed by Sidney Lumet.) He says that he wrote SMOKE SCREEN as 'a thriller with an emphasis on character, including the villain's.'

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0688155367
• ISBN 13: 9780688155360
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 376