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The Last Goodbye Book

This smartly plotted and smoothly written debut thriller by the pseudonymous Malcolm Bell (described only as "a former government employee" on the hardcover jacket) is a welcome throwback to the innocent days of Elleston Trevor and early Len Deighton. There's some healthy sex, but nothing kinky; a modicum of violence, but not much display of seriously nasty body parts. And as for the central threat--that San Diego will be destroyed by a nuclear weapon triggered by a deadly new substance called red mercury--well, only the CIA director really worries much about that. Most of the pleasure comes from watching Marcus Malone, a former CIA agent running a failing security agency, being convinced by the director and his earnest banker ally to let himself be exposed as a flashy criminal arms dealer and then to disappear into Eastern Europe--where the terrorist who wants the red mercury will hopefully contact him. And when Malone's new ladyfriend, a dauntless dental assistant, decides to join him in Prague, the fun and excitement increase to a level just begging to be filmed. --Dick AdlerRead More

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    August 9, 1945. Nagasaki, Japan. Yotaro Kawai and his family walk in the dusk of summer. Suddenly, a flash...bright light...a screaming silence...and finally, nothingness. The atomic bomb has dropped. Yotaro's family is dead. Yotaro himself is left alone in the rubble, grossly disfigured for the rest of his years.

    Flash forward to today: Driven by white-hot hatred of a United States that has forgotten their fifty-year-old sins, Yotaro Kawai has become a major figure on today's international crime scene, with one last wish: to avenge the Nagasaki tragedy for his family, his countrymen, and himself.

    Enter Marcus Malone, a middle-aged ex-CIA agent, with nothing to call his own but a failed business venture and marriage. Called out of retirement to stop Kawai, Malone has to lay it all on the line for one last mission. He must give his name, the woman he loves, and his very identity to track down a madman in a criminal world where no moment is safe and no memory will go unpunished.

  • 0312193106
  • 9780312193102
  • Malcolm Bell
  • 1 December 1998
  • St. Martin's Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 344
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