Secrets of state / Matthew Palmer.
Publication details: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2015.Description: 419 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780399165719 (hbk.)
- 0399165711 (hbk.)
- Corporations -- Corrupt practices
- Diplomatic relations
- Government consultants
- FICTION / Suspense
- FICTION / War & Military
- Intelligence service -- Fiction
- International relations -- Fiction
- Government contractors -- Fiction
- FICTION / Suspense
- FICTION / War & Military
- India
- Pakistan
- India -- Fiction
- Pakistan -- Fiction
- 813/.6 23
- PS3616.A3435 S43 2015
- FIC030000 | FIC032000
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Adventure | PAL | Available | 059374 |
Map on inside covers.
"Sam Trainor's career of overseas work coupled with a penchant for being outspoken has left him on the outside of the competitive Washington establishment. Formerly the top South Asia expert in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Trainor has moved to the private sector ... But Sam soon discovers that for all their similarities, the government and their hired contractors have vastly different motives. As he struggles to adjust to a more corporate, profit-driven version of the work that had been his life, he stumbles across an intelligence anomaly--the transcript of a phone conversation about the fastest ways to upend the delicate political balance keeping India and Pakistan from all-out war"--