Scorpion
Published on 7. October 2014
326 pages
978-1-4976-7797-5 (ISBN)
Description
This supercharged thriller from master storyteller Andrew Kaplan introduces the Scorpion, the CIA's top agent in the Middle East, and launches the bestselling espionage series
Kelly Ormont sprints down the narrow streets of Paris. When a car pulls up and a man points a gun at her, life as she knows it is over. Within days, this beautiful congressman's daughter will be in the Middle East, where some of the wealthiest men in the world will bid to make her their slave. Only the Scorpion can save her now.
An American raised among the Bedouin, the Scorpion is the CIA's top agent in the Arabian peninsula. To save Kelly, he slips into the sinister underworld of human trafficking, where the kidnapped girl's trail leads him to a Saudi prince with fanatical global ambitions. When the Scorpion discovers a link between the prince and the Russians, Kelly will not be the only person who needs a savior.
Kelly Ormont sprints down the narrow streets of Paris. When a car pulls up and a man points a gun at her, life as she knows it is over. Within days, this beautiful congressman's daughter will be in the Middle East, where some of the wealthiest men in the world will bid to make her their slave. Only the Scorpion can save her now.
An American raised among the Bedouin, the Scorpion is the CIA's top agent in the Arabian peninsula. To save Kelly, he slips into the sinister underworld of human trafficking, where the kidnapped girl's trail leads him to a Saudi prince with fanatical global ambitions. When the Scorpion discovers a link between the prince and the Russians, Kelly will not be the only person who needs a savior.
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Person
Andrew Kaplan is the author of two bestselling spy thriller series, Scorpion and Homeland, as well as three earlier novels,
Dragonfire,
Hour of the Assassins,and
War of the Raven, which was selected by the American Library Association as one of the one hundred best books ever written about World War II. His novels have been translated into twenty languages. A veteran of the US Army and Israel's Six Day War, he has traveled the world as a freelance journalist. Visit him at www.andrewkaplan.com.
Content
- Intro
- Praise for the Writing of Andrew Kaplan
- Title Page
- Dedication
- PROLOGUE
- PART ONE
- Paris
- Pakistan
- Bahrain
- Place of the Tombs
- Sar
- Manama
- Arabia
- Moscow
- Doha
- Washington
- PART TWO
- Arabia, 1951
- Moscow
- Arabia, 1951
- Al Aramah
- Arabia, 1956
- Al Aramah
- Arabia, 1962
- Riyadh
- Arabia, 1962
- Al Aramah
- Riyadh
- Washington
- PART THREE
- al Hofuf
- Wadi Haradh
- Riyadh
- The Race
- The Ruins of Dariyyah
- The Well of Death
- Ascent
- The Citadel
- The Sands of Dahna
- Bub al Bahrain
- PART FOUR
- Watergate
- Dallas
- Ein Gev
- Moscow
- EPILOGUE
- About the Author
- Copyright Page
