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JERICHO'S FALL
by Carter, Stephen L
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Very Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0307272621
- ISBN 13
- 9780307272621
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. Carter's fourth novel is a spy-thriller features the terminally-ill former head of the CIA, Jericho Ainsley, and Beck DeForde, his former student and lover, who has come to Ainsley's house in the Colorado Rockies to say goodbye. She finds a house under seige by government and corporate agents vying to be the ones to steal Ainsley's last explosive secrets even as Ainsley plays them against one another from his desth bed. An unread copy Signed by Carter on the title page. A very collectable copy.
Synopsis
Stephen L. Carter's brilliant debut, The Emperor of Ocean Park, spent eleven week son the New York Times best-seller list. Now, in Jericho's Fall, Carter turns his formidable talents to the shadowy world of spies, official secrecy, and financial fraud in a thriller that rivets the reader's attention until the very last page.In an imposing house in the Colorado Rockies, Jericho Ainsley, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and a Wall Street titan, lies dying. He summons to his beside Beck DeForde, the younger woman for whom he threw away his career years ago, miring them both in scandal. Beck believes she is visiting to say farewell. Instead, she is drawn into a battle over an explosive secret that foreign governments and powerful corporations alike want to wrest from Jericho before he dies.An intricate and timely thriller that plumbs the emotional depths of a failed love affair and a family torn apart by mistrust, Jericho's Fall takes us on a fast-moving journey through the secretive world of intelligence operations and the meltdown of the financial markets. And it creates, in Beck DeForde, an unforgettable heroine for our turbulent age.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004487
- Title
- JERICHO'S FALL
- Author
- Carter, Stephen L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- ISBN 10
- 0307272621
- ISBN 13
- 9780307272621
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- SPY, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED, THRILLER, COLORADO, SUSPENSE, MYSTERY,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Spy; Suspense; Signed/Inscribed;
Terms of Sale
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
All books subject to prior sale. All books returnable within two weeks for any reason. Please return by USPS (media mail rate) and note the reason for return. All sales subject to applicable taxes.
About the Seller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Canandaigua, New York
About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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