Absolute Risk
By Steven Gore
(Harper, Mass Market Paperback, 9780061782206, 448pp.)
Publication Date: November 2010
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover
Categories: Thrillers, General
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A terrorist bombing in Asia . . . A dead FBI agent in Marseilles . . . Bank accounts linked to a genius finance professor in Boston . . .
Can investigator Graham Gage make the connection before his world collapses?
Days after failing to arrive for a secret meeting with the Federal Reserve chairman, FBI agent Michael Hennessy's body is found at the base of a cliff. But was it suicide or murder? A call from the chairman sends Gage hunting for the truth.
As a desperately ill U.S. president prepares to hand over power to his vice president—a man in the thrall of religious extremists—Gage follows a trail of deceit and terror to a conspiracy that threatens to plummet the world into chaos. But for Gage, there is even more at stake. His wife is trapped between an uprising in Central China and the ruthless Chinese government. And unless Gage exposes the greatest treachery of our age before the clock counts down, Faith will die.
Steven Gore is a former private investigator whose thrillers draw on his investigations of murder, fraud, money laundering, organized crime, political corruption, and drug, sex, and arms trafficking, in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Gore has been featured on 60 Minutes for his work and has been honored for excellence in his field. He is trained in forensic science and has lectured to professional organizations on a wide range of legal and criminal subjects.
“A brisk pace and an intriguing plot make the pages turn themselves.”
-Richard North Patterson, bestselling author of Silent Witness
“Masterful.... Sharp, smart writing and convincing economic detail put this in the front rank of genre fiction.”
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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