
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Liar's Candle
About this book
John le CarrĂ© meets Olen Steinhauer in this brilliant debut thriller about a highly intelligent but naĂŻve State Department intern who is targeted for death after she becomes "the woman who knows too much."Penny Kessler, a young intern at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, wakes up in a hospital on the morning of July 5 to find herself at the center of an international crisis. The day before, the Embassy had been the target of a devastating terrorist attack that killed hundreds of Penny's friends and colleagues. Not only has a photograph of Penny emerging from the rubble become the defining image of the event (#TheGirlwiththeFlag), but for reasons she doesn't understand, her bosses believe she's a crucial witness.Suddenly, everyone is desperately interested in what Penny knows. But what does she know? And who can she trust? As she struggles to piece together her memories of the event, she discovers that Zach Robson, the young diplomat she's been falling for all summer, went missing during the attack. Now his boss at the CIA, Christina Ekdahl, wants people to believe that Zach was a traitor. Only one person stands in her way: Penny. And Christina will do anything to silence her.In a race to stay alive and uncover the truth, Penny reluctantly partners with Connor Beauregard, a rookie CIA officer on his first overseas assignment. But the two won't survive unless they can outwitâand outmaneuverâeveryone from the Turkish president and his daughter to Islamic extremists, the US State Department, and the CIA itself.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Chapter 1: The Girl in the White Dress
- Chapter 2: Thirteen Dimensions
- Chapter 3: Invitation
- Chapter 4: Sirens
- Chapter 5: Foxfire
- Chapter 6: Welcome
- Chapter 7: The Golden Room
- Chapter 8: Delivered
- Chapter 9: Inchworm
- Chapter 10: Keep Your Spies Close
- Chapter 11: Orders
- Chapter 12: Safety
- Chapter 13: The Quick and the Dead
- Chapter 14: Forest for the Trees
- Chapter 15: Pigs, Dogs, and Rats
- Chapter 16: The Only Thing Better
- Chapter 17: Metu
- Chapter 18: The Second Photograph
- Chapter 19: Library
- Chapter 20: Pepper Flakes and Gummy Bears
- Chapter 21: Okyanus
- Chapter 22: Liza
- Chapter 23: Conspicuous
- Chapter 24: The House on the Cliff
- Chapter 25: A Voice in the Night
- Chapter 26: Patron Saints
- Chapter 27: Fairy Tales
- Chapter 28: The Abode of War
- Chapter 29: What You Wish For
- Chapter 30: Questions
- Chapter 31: Turned
- Chapter 32: Nothing to Lose
- Chapter 33: Dust and Air
- Chapter 34: Free Fall
- Chapter 35: Derinkuyu
- Chapter 36: Allies
- Chapter 37: American Fortress
- Chapter 38: Caravanserai
- Chapter 39: Golden Boy
- Chapter 40: Surrounded
- Chapter 41: Lucky
- Chapter 42: Crossing
- Chapter 43: Clutching at Snakes
- Chapter 44: The ĂiraÄan Palace Kempinski
- Chapter 45: What Sets You Free
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Copyright