Fresco - Softcover

Thiebaut, Martin G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2879968119 ISBN 13: 9782879968117

Publisher: Martin Thiebaut, 2005

Synopsis

Harry Powell, an interpreter disillusioned with his lot, falls under the spell of Alexy Geary, FRESCO’s alluring Senior Vice-President. After agreeing to offer his services in San Francisco, he finds himself entangled in a web of violence and intrigue.
It soon emerges that a maverick statesman - the French President Fouquet - is threatening to imperil the entire northern hemisphere with his grand designs for a new world order.

Before he knows what has hit him, Harry is pitchforked into the middle of an international crisis.

Complicated by wild cards in the persons of ageing Russian, Dmitri Zhukhovsky, a secret service operative with an agenda of his own, and French environmental activist, Philippe DuFresne, resolved to lay bare Fouquet’s true intentions, the outcome is on a knife’s edge.

Will the Soviet Union seize upon French brinkmanship as a pretext for sparking off World War III? Will the Pentagon jump at the opportunity to unleash its Star Wars laser technology? Fouquet's tactics risk plunging the industrialised world into nuclear conflagration.

With the stakes this high, there is no guarantee as to who will blink first.

About this title

Review:

"A cinematic roller-coaster of a suspense novel coinciding with the release of Sidney Pollack's 'The Interpreter'." -- y

"Thrills action, humour – we have a winner." -- Writers' Circle Newsletter (Luxembourg) Irene Hughes, April 2005

"a real page-turner" -- y

From the Author:

The characters you will meet on your journey through these pages are ordinary mortals battling for survival in a world where things rarely run as smoothly as a Rolex Oyster.

About this edition

• Publisher: Martin Thiebaut
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 2879968119
• ISBN 13: 9782879968117
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 552