Jericho's Fall
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Jericho's Fall
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Narrated by:
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Kirsten Potter
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Written by:
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Stephen L. Carter
About this listen
Stephen L. Carter’s brilliant debut, The Emperor of Ocean Park, spent 11 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 listener’s attention until the very last minute.
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.
©2009 Stephen L. Carter (P)2009 Random HouseWhat the critics say
“The best espionage novel I've come across in 20 years.” (Lincoln Child)
“Jericho’s Fall is an intense, beautifully written thriller that held me in its grip from the very first page to the last. An absolute winner.” (Christopher Reich, author of the Simon Riske series)
“An intricate spy thriller that proceeds at breakneck speed from mystery to revelation and back again... the sort of book Graham Greene used to call 'an entertainment.'" (Los Angeles Times)