The Disciples: A Novel
The Disciples: A Novel
ISBN: 9780671795993
定价: 200.00
内容简介
This is how the world/changed. The Wall.
Communism. A new world order. But
before all that, there is a lurking ques-
tion: Why? What really happened? The
answer is Rebecca. Rebecca, who
showed the world the simple truth that
she who holds the secrets holds the
world. And she alone held them, tight.
Rebecca Townsend, dashing, roman-
tic, with a wit as outlandish as her libido,
is a recruiter of new talent for the
National Security Agency. Suddenly she
goes AWOL from the agency with a hand-
some young recruit. Piece by piece, the
agency discovers that Rebecca is one of
twelve members of a family that buys
and sells the most powerful commodity
in this new age, information. Can it be
that she and the Disciples plan to reveal
what every nation will kill to protect: its
most cherished secrets?
The results could be chaos, war or
peace.
Only one man can stop her. T. C.
Steele--patriot, voyeur, and reluctant
spy. A former information analyst at the
NSA, he is frantically recalled from an
early retirement to figure out what
stratagem Rebecca has put into play.
Has she been selling out all along? Is
she going over to the other side? And
what side is that, anyway? Steele sifts
through the hieroglyphic chards of elec-
tronic clues as he is rushed into an intri-
cate and gripping game of quarry and hunter. He must stop Rebecca at all
cost, and to do so he is forced to aban-
don the hushed and secure offices of the
agency and take to the field. To survive,
Steele clings to his own simple truth:
Solicit the trust of others; trust no one.
Here are American spies in pursuit of
one another, as their world crashes down
around them. The chase is suffused with
the mysterious culture of veiled enter-
prise that surrounds the NSA--known to
insiders as No Such Agency. This bold
and unforgettable thriller reveals that the
sphere of nations is balanced on pre-
cious little, and this is how it changed
forever.., or did it?
The Disciples is the reinvention of the
American spy-thriller.