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A Saudi prince’s grab for wealth plunges the world’s superpowers into chaosAs the first in line for the Saudi throne, Prince Tefwik Hassan cannot afford public embarrassment. So when he loses his fortune in a failed scheme to corner the world’s reserves of silver, Hassan is left scrambling. To recoup his millions, he devises an intricate plan that spans the globe and involves players from the upper echelons of both American and Soviet power: Hassan begins buying gold. The plan requires incredible international coordination, from the wood-paneled halls of London banks, to the arid fields of South Africa, to the frigid wastes of the Soviet Union. Every greedy man in the world wants a piece of Prince Hassan’s plot, and when such dangerous men turn on each other, pandemonium ensues. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Brian Freemantle including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

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Freemantle has few peers when it comes to espionage thrillers, but this novel is less a spy novel than a tale of corporate takeovers, political trickery, greed, and ambition. (Although the novel was first published in England in 1981 as The Midas Man, under the pseudonym Jonathan Evans, it is appearing for the first time in the U.S.). James Collington is CEO of the huge multinational SAGOMI, producer of gold, silver, oil, and dozens of other raw products with holdings worldwide. When a Russian airliner full of gold crashes near Amsterdam, the accident causes alarm. The Russians supposedly have a lock on gold production, so why import a planeload of the precious metal? But the planeload of gold is only one tiny piece of a complex conspiracy that reaches from SAGOMI to America's Treasury secretary to a Middle Eastern oil sheikh to the highest echelons of the Soviet politburo. It's left to Collington to first grasp and then confound the deadly scheme. Freemantle's devious plot is mesmerizing, and the elaborate political-governmental-economic scheming has a frightening verisimilitude. Fans of Freemantle's acclaimed Charlie Muffin series will rejoice at the opportunity to read this early but no less accomplished example of the author's work. A top-notch global thriller that's guaranteed to entertain. Emily Melton

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“[Freemantle] hauls you aboard and won’t let you off until the roller coaster stops.” —Los Angeles Times

“Freemantle has no peer.” —Booklist

“A master storyteller.” —Publishers Weekly

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005HA9IB0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller (August 23, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 23, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5434 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 439 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,601,099 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #3,364 in Political Thrillers & Suspense
- #7,198 in International Mystery & Crime (Kindle Store)
- #11,024 in International Mystery & Crime (Books)

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Brian Freemantle [b. 1936] is one of Britain's most acclaimed authors of spy fiction. His novels have sold over ten million copies worldwide. Born in Southampton, Freemantle entered his career as a journalist, and began writing espionage thrillers in the late 1960s. Charlie M (1977) introduced the world to Charlie Muffin and won Freemantle international recognition—he would go on to publish fourteen titles in the series.

Freemantle has written dozens of other novels, including two featuring Sebastian Holmes, an illegitimate son of Sherlock Holmes, and the Cowley and Danilov series, about an American FBI agent and a Russian militia detective who work together to comabt organized crime in the post-Cold War world. Freemantle lives and works in London, Englad.