The most riveting novel yet in Christopher Reich’s New York Times bestselling series—featuring Dr. Jonathan Ransom and his undercover-agent wife Emma, a dangerous woman with a mysterious past who has gone rogue in the high-stakes, serpentine world of international spies. In 1980, a secret American B-52 crashes high in a remote mountain range on the Pakistan–Afghanistan border. Nearly thirty years later, and spanning locales from those peaks to New York City, a terrible truth will be revealed. Jonathan Ransom returns as the resourceful doctor thrown into a shadowy world of double and triple agents where absolutely no one can be trusted. To stay alive, Ransom must unravel the mystery surrounding his wife—an enigmatic and lethal spy who plays by her own rules—and discover where her loyalties truly lie. Rules of Betrayal is a masterfully plotted novel that cements Christopher Reich’s reputation as one of the most admired espionage thriller writers today.
Publishers Weekly Reich's outstanding third thriller featuring Dr. Jonathan Ransom (after Rules of Vengeance) finds the courageous surgeon, who no longer works for Doctors Without Borders, in the hinterlands of Afghanistan, where he gets caught in a Taliban raid that ends with him being choppered out of a vicious firefight. As in the two previous novels, Jonathan becomes enmeshed in a mission that's run by Division, a secret U.S. government agency. The series' ongoing and fascinating twist is that Jonathan's wife, the extremely capable and extremely deadly Emma, may or may not be a Division agent, a Russian spy, or something else entirely. Jonathan willingly enters the dark world of espionage to rescue Emma after she falls afoul of Taliban warrior Sultan Haq and an evil arms dealer known as Lord Balfour. Emma's liberation of a nuclear bomb lost by the U.S. in the mountains of Pakistan in 1980 leads to an untied thread that will have readers eagerly awaiting the next installment. (July)

Rules of Betrayal : a Jonathan Ransom novel

Rules of betrayal. Jonathon Ransom (3)

Reich, Christopher

Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers

Random House, Incorporated

New York: Doubleday

Delacorte Press

Jonathan Ransom, 3, 1st edition, New York, 2010

1st ed., New York, New York State, 2010

United States, United States of America

Jonathan Ransom, 3, New York, NY, 2010

1, PS, 2010

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Dr. Jonathan Ransom becomes involved in the mysterious world of espionage and tries to determine the motives and loyalties of his wife Emma, a dangerous undercover agent, when the scary consequences of a 1980 crash of an American B-52 bomber on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan come to fruition thirty years later

Erscheint: Juli 2010

2023-10-09