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PublisherSt. Martin's Press

ISBN-101250050588

ISBN-139781250050588

eBay Product ID (ePID)168333898

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Book TitleLiars and Thieves

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2013

TopicThrillers / Espionage

GenreFiction

AuthorStephen Coonts

Book SeriesTommy Carmellini Ser.

FormatMass Market

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Item Weight16 Oz

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ReviewsFormer Grafton sidekick Tommy Carmellini, ex-burglar and CIA operative, has been promoted to star in what's sure to be another excellent, long-lived series...Tommy is smart, brave, skilled, and possessed of enough self-deprecating, wise-cracking wit to endear him to readers...readers of the Jake Grafton series will easily make the leap to Tommy Carmellini, and new readers can be expected to sign up for this hipper hero., Tommy is a self-deprecating and wise-cracking narrator who brings a welcome energy to the genre. And fans will be pleased to see a now retired Jake Grafton and his wife, Callie, make an appearance., Readers who have not previously treated themselves to a Coonts thriller should definitely pick up this one., Praise for Liberty :"Frighteningly realistic." - Maxim "Gripping_ the action is slam-bang." - PW for America "Rivals Clancy for fiction-as-realism and Cussler for spirited action_ .heart-racing jet/missile combat, suspenseful submarine maneuvers and doomsday scenarios that feel only too real." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) for Fortunes of War: "A stirring examination of courage, compassion, and profound nobility of military professionals under fire." - Kirkus Reviews Flight of the Intruder :"Coonts knows how to write and build suspense_ this is the mark of a natural storyteller" - The New York Times Book Review, "This book is vintage Coonts...plenty of action and intrigue, with the added benefit of a new lead character." Dallas Morning News "Coonts knows how to write and build suspense...this is the mark of a natural storyteller." The New York Times Book Review "Former Grafton sidekick Tommy Carmellini, ex-burglar and CIA operative, has been promoted to star in what's sure to be another excellent, long-lived series...Tommy is smart, brave, skilled, and possessed of enough self-deprecating, wise-cracking wit to endear him to readers...readers of the Jake Grafton series will easily make the leap to Tommy Carmellini, and new readers can be expected to sign up for this hipper hero." Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Tommy is a self-deprecating and wise-cracking narrator who brings a welcome energy to the genre. And fans will be pleased to see a now retired Jake Grafton and his wife, Callie, make an appearance." Library Journal "Readers who have not previously treated themselves to a Coonts thriller should definitely pick up this one."Bookreporter.com "Fast-paced...reminiscent of Carl Hiaasen or even the master himself, Elmore Leonard." Hintonnews.net, This book is vintage Coonts...plenty of action and intrigue, with the added benefit of a new lead character., Praise for Liberty :"Frighteningly realistic." - Maxim "Gripping... the action is slam-bang." - PW for America "Rivals Clancy for fiction-as-realism and Cussler for spirited action... .heart-racing jet/missile combat, suspenseful submarine maneuvers and doomsday scenarios that feel only too real." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) for Fortunes of War: "A stirring examination of courage, compassion, and profound nobility of military professionals under fire." - Kirkus Reviews Flight of the Intruder :"Coonts knows how to write and build suspense... this is the mark of a natural storyteller" - The New York Times Book Review, "This book is vintage Coonts...plenty of action and intrigue, with the added benefit of a new lead character."- Dallas Morning News "Coonts knows how to write and build suspenseâ€¦this is the mark of a natural storyteller."- The New York Times Book Review "Former Grafton sidekick Tommy Carmellini, ex-burglar and CIA operative, has been promoted to star in what's sure to be another excellent, long-lived seriesâ€¦Tommy is smart, brave, skilled, and possessed of enough self-deprecating, wise-cracking wit to endear him to readersâ€¦readers of the Jake Grafton series will easily make the leap to Tommy Carmellini, and new readers can be expected to sign up for this hipper hero."- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Tommy is a self-deprecating and wise-cracking narrator who brings a welcome energy to the genre. And fans will be pleased to see a now retired Jake Grafton and his wife, Callie, make an appearance."- Library Journal "Readers who have not previously treated themselves to a Coonts thriller should definitely pick up this one."-Bookreporter.com "Fast-pacedâ€¦reminiscent of Carl Hiaasen or even the master himself, Elmore Leonard." -Hintonnews.net, "This book is vintage Coonts...plenty of action and intrigue, with the added benefit of a new lead character." -- Dallas Morning News "Coonts knows how to write and build suspense...this is the mark of a natural storyteller." -- The New York Times Book Review "Former Grafton sidekick Tommy Carmellini, ex-burglar and CIA operative, has been promoted to star in what's sure to be another excellent, long-lived series...Tommy is smart, brave, skilled, and possessed of enough self-deprecating, wise-cracking wit to endear him to readers...readers of the Jake Grafton series will easily make the leap to Tommy Carmellini, and new readers can be expected to sign up for this hipper hero." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Tommy is a self-deprecating and wise-cracking narrator who brings a welcome energy to the genre. And fans will be pleased to see a now retired Jake Grafton and his wife, Callie, make an appearance." -- Library Journal "Readers who have not previously treated themselves to a Coonts thriller should definitely pick up this one." -- Bookreporter.com "Fast-paced...reminiscent of Carl Hiaasen or even the master himself, Elmore Leonard." -- Hintonnews.net

Dewey Edition22

Series Volume Number1

Dewey Decimal813.54

Edition DescriptionSpecial

SynopsisLiars and Thieves is Stephen Coonts as you've never seen him before-a story as chilling as it is unforgettable. Tommy Carmellini, a CIA operative who is unafraid to walk both sides of the law to attain his objective, uncovers a dark conspiracy that leads to the highest levels of the American government-and to a ruthless manipulator who will stop at nothing to keep a decades-old secret. Liars and Thieves opens as Carmellini is sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in West Virginia's remote Allegheny Mountains, where top government operatives are debriefing a star defector: the ultimate KGB insider, a man with records on every operation and every dirty trick the shadowy intelligence agency has ever run, from Lenin to Putin. Carmellini arrives to find the guards shot dead and a ruthless team of commandos--American commandos--killing everyone in sight, then setting the house on fire. He escapes in a hail of bullets with what seems to be the sole survivor, a stunningly attractive translator who then steals his car, abandoning him, after a deadly mountain car chase. But one other person survived the massacre: The man whose fractured memory holds the KGB's most embarrassing secrets, including something for which someone will kill to keep it quiet. Carmellini teams up with his mentor, Admiral Jake Grafton, and together they track down the amnesiac defector. From there, the hunt is on as they become the target of a lethal squad of killers who can only be taking direction from someone very close to the president. From a bloody ambush at a posh Virginia estate, to assassinations on the decaying streets of inner city Washington, to a makeshift safe house at Grafton's Delaware summer home, no place is outside the ruthless conspiracy's reach. Carmellini and Grafton must learn to tell friend from foe as they fight their way through a poisonous wilderness of intrigue, all the way to a presidential convention in New York City-and to the surprising identity of someone standing on the verge of absolute power who has jeopardized the safety of the entire nation to prevent a dark secret from ever seeing the light of day., "Liars and Thieves" is Stephen Coonts as you've never seen him before-a story as chilling as it is unforgettable. Tommy Carmellini, a CIA operative who is unafraid to walk both sides of the law to attain his objective, uncovers a dark conspiracy that leads to the highest levels of the American government-and to a ruthless manipulator who will stop at nothing to keep a decades-old secret."Liars and Thieves" opens as Carmellini is sent to post guard duty at a farmhouse in West Virginia's remote Allegheny Mountains, where top government operatives are debriefing a star defector: the ultimate KGB insider, a man with records on every operation and every dirty trick the shadowy intelligence agency has ever run, from Lenin to Putin.Carmellini arrives to find the guards shot dead and a ruthless team of commandos--American commandos--killing everyone in sight, then setting the house on fire. He escapes in a hail of bullets with what seems to be the sole survivor, a stunningly attractive translator who then steals his car, abandoning him, after a deadly mountain car chase.But one other person survived the massacre: The man whose fractured memory holds the KGB's most embarrassing secrets, including something for which someone will kill to keep it quiet. Carmellini teams up with his mentor, Admiral Jake Grafton, and together they track down the amnesiac defector. From there, the hunt is on as they become the target of a lethal squad of killers who can only be taking direction from someone very close to the president. From a bloody ambush at a posh Virginia estate, to assassinations on the decaying streets of inner city Washington, to a makeshift safe house at Grafton's Delaware summer home, no place is outside the ruthless conspiracy's reach. Carmellini and Grafton must learn to tell friend from foe as they fight their way through a poisonous wilderness of intrigue, all the way to a presidential convention in New York City-and to the surprising identity of someone standing on the verge of absolute power who has jeopardized the safety of the entire nation to prevent a dark secret from ever seeing the light of day.