Smokescreen
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
At an ancient café in Cairo, two veteran spies plot a covert mission to resolve - once and for all - the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. The pledge: Israel will make a major concession as part of the peace treaty. In Singapore, Jethro Westrope, a magazine journalist, stumbles onto the scene of a murder: the beautiful Niki Kishwani directs him, in her last breath, to a digital recorder, evidence that puts Jethro's life in serious danger. And, much worse, he is framed for Niki's murder. Jethro sets out to find Niki's killer and is drawn into a web of deception and intrigue involving officials from the Singaporean, Israeli, and American governments, each with a complex, competing, and potentially deadly agenda. Against this pulse-pounding backdrop, Jethro races to find answers and save himself -yet nothing is as it seems. He finds himself at the centre of a political plot so diabolical and sweeping in its world implications that he is stunned to discover tomorrow's news headlines today. He is being set up not only as a murderer but as an assassin, and something much larger than his own fate is in his hands.
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In this high-octane thriller from Talib (Incognito), the Israeli prime minister has secretly negotiated with the PLO and Hamas, agreeing to return all the occupied territories, in a deal brokered by Singapore. Members of the Israeli government opposed to those concessions scheme to have the PM murdered and a Singapore magazine reporter, Jet West, implicated as the assassin. The conspirators work toward their goal of framing West by concocting a story that he got a message from Allah in a dream asking him to convert to Islam and shoot the PM. Meanwhile, the chief protocol officer of the Singapore ministry of foreign affairs does his bit to make West a credible assassin by implicating him in the killing of Niki Kishwani, the Singapore Tourism public relations manager. Before dying, Kishwani manages to tip off West to the frame, setting off a desperate scramble for survival and exoneration. Readers will be eager to find out how everything resolves. (Self-published)