Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Introduction
The novel was published in 1990 but the story takes place two years earlier, at the close of the Cold War. An era is coming to an end. The Berlin Wall is about to fall. A former CIA Director is about to become President. The third paragraph sets the date and Thomas’s indelible tone:
The close of the eighties seems a particularly rich timescape for one of Thomas’s unmistakable thrillers. The Republic had felt battered by hostile governments abroad—Iran, Libya, and Nicaragua come to mind. Rather than confront them directly, the Reagan-North-Secord alliance had tried to subvert them without the approval or even knowledge of the American people.
