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Article: A dying CIA man's final reckoning; Books and Authors.(NW Arts&Life)
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- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- Article date:
- July 26, 2009
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Byline: Tyrone Beason; Special to The Seattle Times
"Jericho's Fall"
by Stephen L. Carter
Knopf, 352 pp., $25.95
Something's just not right at the Colorado mountain retreat that serves as the menacing backdrop for the latest thriller by Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter, "Jericho's Fall," a simmering page-turner about the murky underbelly of intelligence and finance that has "Morgan Freeman movie blockbuster" written all over it.
There's intrigue. There's betrayal. There's doomed romance. Of course there are secret documents stashed in plain envelopes, along with plenty of morally ambiguous schemers who have a stake in ...