Absolute Risk

Absolute Risk

Steven Gore

Language: English

Pages: 432

ISBN: 0061782203

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Absolute Risk is the work of a talented writer who knows how to hook his readers from the opening line.”
—Richard North Patterson, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Witness

 

A new star in the thriller firmament, Steven Gore brings back investigator Graham Gage for a second assignment (after Final Target)—as Gage and his wife are caught up in the lethal machinations of a worldwide financial plot rooted in China. Absolute Risk, like its acclaimed predecessor, is an international thriller for grown-ups: riveting, surprising, intelligent, and frighteningly believable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gage’s ear and said, “You pervert motherfucker.” Gage held his breath for a few seconds and gritted his teeth, and then asked, “What’s Michaels look like? “ “Six-two. Two-ten. White guy. Blue. Brown.” Strubb laughed. “I’d say we’ve got a match.” “Me and a thousand other guys in Albany.” “Hold on to him,” Strubb told his partner. “Lemme go make a call.” Strubb walked ten cars away and called Gilbert. “He’s says his name is Graham Gage and that he’s a—“ “I know who Gage is. Got a big

along Quai de Rive Neuve. Soon he was enveloped by the diesel exhaust of buses and the salty-slimy stench of the fishmongers’ stands lined up along the dock. He heard a yelp and glanced over to see a fisherman holding up a squirming octopus, waving it like a wet mop, and two old women giggling and backing away and then him slamming it down like pizza dough on a marble slab. Next to him a sea urchin vendor waved a sample and yelled at passersby, “Treize a la douzaine, Treize a la douzaine,”

Faith shook her head. “It’s better that way.” Faith reached out and held Ayi Zhao’s hand. “But then you wouldn’t have such a wonderful grandson.” “I know, and it’s a shame that he’s been so humiliated by his parents. I hope he’s finding comfort in his faith.” She shrugged. “I don’t understand it. Christianity seems so odd. I try to imagine heaven and hell, but I can’t see them except as distorted reflections of what is around me. And I can’t imagine Jesus as a god, only as a foreigner’s

None of that has changed in the last thirty seconds.” Abrams noticed that three of the twelve senators smiled, seven frowned, and two were looking at their BlackBerrys and had missed the exchange altogether. Prescott’s face flushed. “You’re saying that the last four presidents have been lying to the American people about the true rates of inflation and unemployment?” Abrams ground his right knuckles into his left palm under the table. He wanted to answer by saying that they couldn’t have

them Ibrahim.” CHAPTER 60 There’s a chance Ibrahim is still alive and I don’t want to get him killed,” Gage told Milton Abrams after recounting the previous night’s events. “But we need to find him and figure out what the Chinese are up to.” “And you’re afraid you’ll be bird-dogging him for the Chinese who may be worried he’ll spill the beans, whatever they may be.” Gage picked up his cup from the kitchen table and took a sip. “Exactly.” Gage’s cell phone rang. He’d left it on the

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