League of Terror

by Bill Granger

Overview

The armistice has been all but signed. The Cold War is over. The world has no further use for spies. Or so it would seem.

Fortunately, Devereaux--the spy they call November--knows better. Even now, he finds himself and his implacable nemesis locked in a deadly battle. The backdrop is the secret war of terrorism waged by an insidious mastermind combining the bloodiest back-alley tactics of Irish republicanism with the sleek financial machinations of Wall Street. The stakes are deeply personal, for an assassin has struck at Rita Macklin, the journalist who loves the November Man. Now Devereaux has but a single goal: kill Henry McGee, before he can strike again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455530250
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	01/13/2015
Series:	November Man , #11
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	842,085
File size:	505 KB

About the Author

An award-winning novelist and reporter, Bill Granger began his literary career in 1979 with Code Name November (first published as The November Man), the book that became an international sensation and introduced the cool American spy who later gave rise to a whole series. His second novel, Public Murders, a Chicago police procedural, won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1981.
In all, Bill Granger published twenty-two novels, including thirteen in the November Man series, and three nonfiction books. His books have been translated into ten languages. He also wrote for the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, Newsday, Time, and The New Republic, contributing articles about crime, cops, politics, and covering such events as the race riots of the late 1960's and the 1968 Democratic Convention. Bill Granger passed away in 2012.

Editorial Reviews

Eleventh in his November Man series, this snappily paced thriller by Chicago newsman/novelist Granger (Edgar-winner Public Murders ) brings back right-thinking hero Devereaux (code-named ``November''), American intelligence agent for R section, once again waging his feud against arch adversary Henry McGee. Sheer evil terrorist-for-profit McGee blows up a plane in flight, an Irish pub, a London townhouse, and diverts responsibility for his crimes to the IRA; he uses his female accomplices--German Maria, Irish Maureen--for sex and murder, then orders them, too, slain. McGee strikes at Devereaux by savagely wounding both him and his girlfriend, journalist Rita Macklin. Devereaux and Macklin must escape from their hospital rooms--Devereaux rescuing Macklin from the clutches of Dr. Krueger, who keeps her drugged for his own pleasure--and undergo a slow, painful healing. Retired from his job because of so-called brain damage, Devereaux vows to kill McGee as a last gesture. Staccato stylist Granger delivers easy-reading entertainment via plot and counterplot, amusing cartoon villains, and an arsenal of plastique, nerve gas and an ingenious caviar-and-vodka device with lethal capabilities. 30,000 first printing. (Nov.)

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