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The Hostage Hardback - 2005
by W. E. Griffin
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By Order of the President, the first novel in W.E.B. Griffin's crackling new Presidential Agent series, won immediate acclaim from critics and fans alike. Charley Castillo works with the Department of Homeland Security, but more and more he is the man to whom the president turns when he needs an investigation done discreetly. And no situation demands discretion more than the one before them now.An American diplomat's wife is kidnapped in Argentina, and her husband murdered before her eyes. Her children will be next, she is warned, if she doesn't tell them where her brother is-a brother, as it turns out, who may know quite a bit about the burgeoning UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal. There is an awful lot of money flying around, and an awful lot of hands reaching out to grab it-and some of those hands don't mind shedding as much blood as it takes.Brimming with rich characters, strong action, and cutting-edge drama, this is Griffin writing at the height of his powers.
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The second novel in W. E. B. Griffin's new bestselling series finds Presidential Agent Charley Castillo investigating the death of an American diplomat in Argentina, the kidnapping of the diplomat's wife, and a scandal tying the United Nations to Iraq.
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As an American, Jean-Paul Lorimer was always annoyed or embarrassed, or both, every time he arrived at Vienna's international airport.
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- Title The Hostage
- Author W. E. Griffin
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 465
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Putnam Publishing Group, New York
- Publication date 2005
- ISBN 9780399153143 / 0399153144
- Weight 1.47 lbs (0.67 kg)
- Dimensions 9.22 x 6.38 x 1.57 in (23.42 x 16.21 x 3.99 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Category Fiction - Espionage / Thriller
- Library of Congress subjects United States, Suspense fiction
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005051498
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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