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Published Mar 2008
304 pages
Genre: Thrillers
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Paperback Original. Army Intelligence reservist Kat Caldwell is teaching Arabic at a military college in Virginia when the order comes: Retired spy chief Dick Morrow needs to find a CIA informant who has slipped away from his handler in Spain and may be heading to Morocco.
Jamal was a prisoner whom Kat interrogated when she worked at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. Having gained his trust, she is now expected to discover his whereabouts on a treacherous trail that leads from Madrid's red-light district to the slums of Casablanca. But when a British Special Forces soldier is murdered just as he is about to give testimony on the death of a Bagram detainee, Kat begins to suspect that the real story here is one of the cover-up of U.S.-sanctioned torture. And when in desperation Jamal contacts his former CIA handler, he unwittingly rekindles a bitter struggle between the one man who can save him and the one who wants him dead.
"Effortlessly shifting point of view and back and forth in time, Carr (An Accidental American) well deserves comparisons with the early John le Carré." - Publishers Weekly.
"A smart, timely thriller weakened only by the abrupt narrative jumps among the decades covered." - Kirkus Reviews.
"Carr's purpose, as she notes in her acknowledgments, is to illuminate the vicious abuses that occurred under the reign (1961-99) of Moroccan King Hassan II, and American readers will gain insight into that country's oppressive Years of Lead. This worthy addition to the spy genre is recommended for large public libraries." - Library Journal.
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Alex Carr is a pseudonym of Jenny Siler who has written a number of novels including Flashback under her own name, and An Accidental American as Alex Carr.
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