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Overview

“Absolute Risk is the work of a talented writer who knows how to hook his readers from the opening line.”
—Richard North Patterson, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Witness

A new star in the thriller firmament, Steven Gore brings back investigator Graham Gage for a second assignment (after Final Target)—as Gage and his wife are caught up in the lethal machinations of a worldwide financial plot rooted in China. Absolute Risk, like its acclaimed predecessor, is an international thriller for grown-ups: riveting, surprising, intelligent, and frighteningly believable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061782206
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	10/26/2010
Series:	A Graham Gage Thriller , #2
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.92(w) x 11.80(h) x 1.07(d)

About the Author

Steven Gore is a former private investigator turned “masterful” writer (Publishers Weekly), who combines “a command of storytelling” with “insider knowledge” (Library Journal). With a unique voice honed on the street and in the Harlan Donnally and Graham Gage novels, Gore’s stories are grounded in his decades spent investigating murder; fraud; organized crime; corruption; and drug, sex, and arms trafficking throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He has been featured on 60 Minutes and honored for investigative excellence. Gore lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Richard North Patterson

“A brisk pace and an intriguing plot make the pages turn themselves.”

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Editorial Reviews

Masterful.... Sharp, smart writing and convincing economic detail put this in the front rank of genre fiction.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A brisk pace and an intriguing plot make the pages turn themselves.” — Richard North Patterson, bestselling author of Silent Witness

From the Publisher

A brisk pace and an intriguing plot make the pages turn themselves.

Richard North Patterson

Terrorists don't need bombs to blow up a financial system, private investigator Graham Gage learns the hard way in the not-quite-so-successful follow-up toFinal Target(2010).
In the nation's financial world, the clouds are darkening, according to Federal Reserve Chairman Milton Abrams. It's a gut feeling, growing on him that the United States has become vulnerable to inimical forces sophisticated enough about money to use it like a weapon of mass destruction. Nothing definite, still unsettling things have been happening, thinks Abrams. A brilliant economist, Hani Ibrahim, has disappeared after falling from grace. An ex-FBI agent, Michael Hennessy, who also fell from grace, sort of, has been reported as a suicide. No one but Abrams frets much about the Ibrahim-Hennessy connection, but that doesn't stop the newly appointed Fed Chairman from worrying. Yes, he's aware that Hennessy had been reproaching himself bitterly for besmirching Ibrahim's reputation—plausible, perhaps, as a suicide motive—but he knows, too, that there are those in various corridors of power who'd be pleased if both men were vaporized, one way or another. Some of those corridors are in far-flung places, of course, as far-flung as China, for instance. That being the case, the question robbing Abrams of sleep is when does a suicide only resemble a suicide? Or, is the odor he's been sniffing recently the acrid smell of financial conspiracy? Enter Gage, San Francisco PI, summoned by Abrams to find out what Hennessy knew that might have made him inconvenient enough to murder. Tough, resourceful and bulldog stubborn, Gage goes to work, certain that in focusing on Hennessy he's also following the money.
Ponzi schemes and the like are so dutifully explained by Gore that they undercut narrative drive and dampen excitement. Too bad, because there are good things in this novel.

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