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Jericho's Fall

by Stephen L. Carter
Kirsten Potter
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Stephen L. Carter’s brilliant debut, The Emperor of Ocean Park, spent eleven 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 reader’s attention until the very last page.
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.

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  • Release date

    July 14, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781415967218
      • File size: 331670 KB
      • Duration: 11:30:58

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Kirsten Potter's robust interpretation of Beck DeForde, Carter's unforgettable heroine, is a virtuoso performance. Beck is the younger woman for whom Jericho Ainsley threw away his career in the CIA many years ago. Now she tells the story of the explosive secret that foreign governments and powerful corporations want to squeeze from her husband. This thriller takes place in an imposing mansion, Stone Heights, in the Colorado Rockies. Potter reads with verve, as if relating events as they happen, and imbues each character with a unique personality. The suspenseful plot moves in fits and starts as the emotional depths of a failed love affair and a family destroyed by mistrust are revealed. S.C.A. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 11, 2009
      Bestseller Carter, who expertly blended social commentary and devious plots in his previous novels (The Emperor of Ocean Park
      ; New England White
      ; Palace Council
      ), delivers a modest spy thriller, his first work of fiction not to focus on characters from what he has termed “the darker nation.” The sententious opening sentence (“On the Sunday before the terror began, Rebecca DeForde pointed the rental car into the sullen darkness of her distant past”) sets the tone for this minor effort. Rebecca has traveled to the Colorado Rockies to visit former CIA director Jericho Ainsley, who's dying of cancer. Jericho's decades of power and influence came to an end when he began an affair with her 15 years earlier. On arrival, Rebecca learns that shadowy forces fear that Jericho will reveal damaging Company secrets, and that his life is threatened by more than illness. Fans will miss the fully realized characters and mysterious puzzles of Carter's more complex, less predictable earlier work. Author tour.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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