| Brilliant in its story telling and prophetic in its predic-tions, The Last Raven a dazzling novel of suspenseand a chilling cautionary tale-confirms Craig Thomas place in the front-rank of top-selling internationalauthors.Inside the Russian border with Afghanistan, thewrecked fuselage of a military transport plane lieshalf-submerged in a lake. Everyone on board is deadthe crew burned and all identification lost. PatrickHyde, Sir Kenneth Aubrey s top intelligence operative,witnesses this eerie scene, and discovers, to his horror,the identity of one of the bodies. The crash is noaccident. Instead, it s an expertly planned shootdown.The time is the present-when the hunger for democ-racy makes world peace a viable possibility at last. Butthere are those-in America, Russia, and Great Britain-who have everything to lose if peace prevails. Theirmethods are as violent as their aims, and human lifeand love have no meaning for them.The Last Raven a tale of political terror and patri-otism run mad-ranges from the icy mountains ofTadzhikistan to the inner sanctums of the newlyenlightened Kremlin, from Sausalito jazz joints toLondon s most exclusive old-boy clubs, finally to climaxin a fierce and deadly confrontation on the shores ofCalifornia s beautiful Lake Shasta. |
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