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Contents appear as unopened & Unblemished in neat fine red cloth covered, gold gilt, boards displaying minimal surface/edge/wear.KIRKUS REVIEW
A disappointing encore appearance by Ray Guinness, the retired hired assassin who was forced back into action by the murder of his second wife in The Summer Soldier (p. 258). Now Ray has gone to work for the CIA, giving up on his attempts to be a mild-mannered English professor, and his first assignment takes him to a South Carolina college town where an atomic research project is being undermined by a foreign spy's threats on the families of the scientists involved. And the wife and daughter currently threatened turn out to be. . . Ray's wife #1 (now remarried) and daughter (now adopted), whom he hasn't seen in ten years, ever since wife Katey found out about his assassin job and deserted him. This is no coincidence--the CIA is testing Ray's resilience--and it's a promising premise. But whereas in The Summer Soldier Guild found just… Leer más
