Dr. Jonathan Ransom, world-class mountaineer
and surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, is
climbing in the Swiss Alps with his
beautiful wife, Emma, when a blizzard sets
in. In their bid to escape the storm, Emma
is killed when she falls into a hidden
crevasse.
Twenty-four hours later, Jonathan receives
an envelope addressed to his wife containing
two baggage-claim tickets. Puzzled, he
journeys to a remote railway station only to
find himself in a life-and-death struggle
for his wife’s possessions. In the aftermath
of the assault, he discovers that his
attackers—one dead, the other mortally
wounded—were, in fact, Swiss police
officers. More frightening still is evidence
of an extraordinary act of betrayal that
leaves Jonathan stunned.
Suddenly the subject of an international
manhunt and the target of a master assassin,
Jonathan is forced on the run. His only
chance at survival lies in uncovering the
devastating truth behind the secret his wife
kept from him and in stopping the terrifying
conspiracy that threatens to bring the world
to the brink of annihilation. Step by step,
he is drawn deeper into a world of spies,
high-tech weaponry, and global terrorism—a
world where no one is whom they appear to be
and where the end always justifies the
means.
Rules of Deception is a brilliantly
conceived, twisting tale of intrigue and
deceit written by the master of the
espionage thriller for the twenty-first
century.
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