(1st US) Tiny nick at bottom of second front end paper and title page. Large, heavy book, 283 pages. DJ colorfully illustrated beneath mylar, a ribbon illustrated around red, white and blue map of U.S., micronick at spine top right edge, photo of author on back, with light thin scratch. DJ and book, both Near Very Fine.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Program for a Puppet: A Novel of Computer Espionage

Publisher

Crown

Publication Date

1980

Language

English

ISBN 10

0517541017

ISBN 13

9780517541012

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st US

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Near Very Fine

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Fiction

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Synopsis

Cheetah: The world's fastest and most powerful supercomputer - trained to pursue its program relentlessly . . . to terminate anything in its way. The brainchild of a father and son - heads of Lasercomp, the world's largest multinational. America has it. Russia has it. And an American journalist has been killed trying to expose its dark purpose . . . But Ed Graham, her lover, will carry on - caught between the C.I.A. the K.G.B. British intelligence, and a network of assassins . . . Because he alone knows the master plan: to create a puppet President of the United States. And Phase One is about to begin . . .

About the Author

Roland Perry is one of Australia's best-known authors. Born in 1946, he began his writing career at The Age newspaper in Melbourne, starting in 1969. After five years spent in the United Kingdom making documentary films, he published his first novel, Program for a Puppet, which was an international bestseller, in 1979. He has since written over twenty-five more books, many of which have gone on to become non-fiction bestsellers, including The Don, the definitive biography of Donald Bradman, Miller's Luck, The Changi Brownlow, The Australian Light Horse and Monash: The Outsider Who Won a War.

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