A Handful of Kings: A Novel - Hardcover

Jacobs, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743245903 ISBN 13: 9780743245906

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2004

Synopsis

Preparing to leave both the foreign service and her lover, American diplomat Vicky Sorrell receives an unusual request from a well-known writer that unwittingly draws her into the murky underground of terrorists and spies near Madrid's U.S. embassy. 15,000 first printing.

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Review:

Robert Olen Butler

No writer is as brilliant as Mark Jacobs at exploring the rich fictional realm of the American abroad. He blends the literary traditions of Henry James and Graham Greene in work that is truly his own and truly wonderful. "A Handful of Kings" is his best book yet.

Robert Olen Butler No writer is as brilliant as Mark Jacobs at exploring the rich fictional realm of the American abroad. He blends the literary traditions of Henry James and Graham Greene in work that is truly his own and truly wonderful. "A Handful of Kings" is his best book yet.

About the Author:

Mark Jacobs is a former foreign service officer who served as cultural attache and information officer in Spain, Turkey, and several posts in Latin America. He has published three previous books and more than sixty short stories in a range of literary and commercial magazines.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0743245903
• ISBN 13: 9780743245906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288