The Washington stratagem
Subtitle: a Yael Azoulay novel
By: Adam LeBor
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Bourbon Street Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780062330017
Subjects: Officials and employees; Undercover operations; United Nations; International relations; Fiction
Description: "In this action-packed, suspenseful sequel to the international thriller The Geneva Option, U.N. covert negotiator Yael Azoulay is drawn into a web of betrayal and intrigue that leads from deep within America's military-industrial complex to the Middle East and beyond. Yael Azoulay nearly lost her life while on assignment for the United Nations in the Congo. Though her physical wounds are healed, she still struggles with the psychological trauma. But her safety is jeopardized once again when her job sends her to meet with the CEO of The Prometheus Group, a lobbying and asset management firm with extensive links to the Pentagon and intelligence services. The U.N. is suspicious about Prometheus's military and intelligence contract operations and wants Yael to quietly investigate. Working under Prometheus's radar, she discovers a chilling conspiracy with ties to Iran. and to a shocking source very close to her. And the end game is nothing less than a devastating--and very lucrative--new war in the Middle East. But the closer she comes to the truth, the more Yael begins to expose herself, revealing a complex and intriguing heroine whose life is riddled with secrets. As she confronts the ghosts of her past, the few certainties of her life begin to crumble around her, laying bare a terrifying truth: that she has enormously powerful enemies who neither forgive. nor forget"--

"A BOURBON STREET BOOK. This thrilling sequel to The Geneva Option reintroduces UN covert negotiator Yael Azoulay, who is still recovering from the physical and emotional trauma of her Congo encounter when she finds herself again drawn into danger--and fighting against betrayal deep within the Pentagon"--