They Came to Baghdad
Baghdad is holding a secret superpower summit, but the word is out, and an underground organization in the Middle East is plotting to sabotage the talks. Into this explosive situation appears Victoria Jones, a young woman with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a...
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Baghdad is holding a secret superpower summit, but the word is out, and an underground organization in the Middle East is plotting to sabotage the talks. Into this explosive situation appears Victoria Jones, a young woman with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded spy dies in her hotel room. The only man who can save the summit is dead. Can Victoria make sense of his dying words: Lucifer…Basrah…Lefarge.…
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780062073785 (0062073788)
ASIN: 62073788
Publish date: June 14th 2011
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Mystery,
Spy Thriller,
Espionage,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense
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