Secrets of State (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780595302369)

John Markham Cortland is the embodiment of Big Oil, a wealthy industrialist secretly smuggling arms and cocaine. Reaping billions in drug profits that dwarf even his oil empire, he compels American intelligence to turn a blind eye until he cultivates new clients in the Middle East. Leighton, an assassin with a checkered past in covert operations, is assigned to kill Cortland in Costa Rica as he vacations with his mistress. But when Leighton s escape plan mysteriously fails, he goes to ground as the agency sends an old flame in harm s way to smoke him out. Paula Grant carries the proof that Leighton s assignment was a rogue operation, but even she does not know if her true mission is to rescue him, or flush him before the guns of the agency s contract killers. Evading a nationwide manhunt, Leighton and Paula come to realize they threaten the forces that engineered Cortland s death, forces that have penetrated their own agency and arranged to sabotage the dead industrialist s promising synthetic fuel .

Author: Damien Hunter
ISBN-10: 059530236X
ISBN-13: 9780595302369
Publisher: iUniverse
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2004
Pages: 404
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
BlueInk Review 10/05/2012
Foreword 12/06/2012