The Final Reckoning - Bourne, Sam
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Once an idealistic lawyer, Tom Byrne will work for anyone now, if the money's right. An official at the United Nations needs him to placate the family of a harmless old man mistaken for a suicide bomber and shot to death by UN Security. But Byrne soon discovers this victim was not quite as innocent as he appeared to be. Together with the dead man's daughter, Byrne uncovers the existence of a clandestine brotherhood responsible for hundreds of unexplained deaths worldwide. Now Tom is a marked man?a target of assassins who will destroy him for what he's learned?as he races to unearth a mystery…mehr

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Once an idealistic lawyer, Tom Byrne will work for anyone now, if the money's right. An official at the United Nations needs him to placate the family of a harmless old man mistaken for a suicide bomber and shot to death by UN Security. But Byrne soon discovers this victim was not quite as innocent as he appeared to be. Together with the dead man's daughter, Byrne uncovers the existence of a clandestine brotherhood responsible for hundreds of unexplained deaths worldwide. Now Tom is a marked man?a target of assassins who will destroy him for what he's learned?as he races to unearth a mystery buried for more than six decades . . . the last great secret of World War II.
Autorenporträt
Sam Bourne is the literary pseudonym of Jonathan Freedland, an award-winning British journalist and broadcaster. He is a weekly columnist for the Guardian (UK), having served as that paper's Washington correspondent. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, and the New Republic. He is a regular contributor to the Jewish Chronicle (UK) and presents BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series The Long View. Bourne is the author of the New York Times and number one UK bestseller The Righteous Men, which has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and The Last Testament. He has also written two nonfiction works, Jacob's Gift and Bring Home the Revolution. He lives in London with his wife and two children.
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Praise for Sam Bourne:

'The biggest challenger to Dan Brown's crown ... a highly charged, theologically accurate tale' Mirror

'Compulsive reading ... successfully blends ancient teachings with the highly charged ways of the 21st century ... bears all the hallmarks of a blockbuster' Daily Express

'The best thriller I've read in years' Piers Morgan

'More readable than The Da Vinci Code - the sense of menace is darker and the characters more believable' Esquire

'Sharper and vastly more authoritative than Dan Brown' Telegraph

'A gripping read' Guardian

'Immensely diverting ... a pacy read, constructed with a crisp control of tension and narrative drive' Observer