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Author Wolff, James, author.

Title Beside the Syrian sea / James Wolff.

Publication Info. London : Bitter Lemon Press 2018.

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F WOLFF JAMES    Check Shelf
Description 318 pages ; 20 cm
Summary Jonas works for the UK secret service as an intelligence analyst. When his father is kidnapped and held for ransom by ISIS gunmen in Syria, he takes matters into his own hands and begins to steal the only currency he has access to: secret government intelligence. He heads to Beirut with a haul of the most sensitive documents imaginable and recruits an unlikely ally - an alcoholic Swiss priest named Father Tobias. Despite barely surviving his previous contact with ISIS, Tobias agrees to travel into the heart of the Islamic State and inform the kidnappers that Jonas is willing to negotiate for his father's life. When the British and American governments realise they may be dealing with betrayal on a scale far greater than that of Edward Snowden, they try everything in their power to stop Jonas, and he finds himself tested to the limit as he fights to keep the negotiations alive and play his enemies off against each other. As the book races towards a thrilling confrontation in the Syrian desert, Jonas will have to decide how far he is willing to go to see his father again.
Subject Islamic State Khorasan Province (Organization) -- Fiction.
Intelligence officers -- Fiction.
Kidnapping -- Fiction.
Terrorists -- Fiction.
Intelligence officers. (OCoLC)fst00975843
Kidnapping. (OCoLC)fst00987322
Terrorists. (OCoLC)fst01148160
Syria. (OCoLC)fst01208757
Syria -- Fiction.
FICTION / Espionage.
Genre/Form Thrillers (Fiction)
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Thrillers (Fiction) (OCoLC)fst01726755
ISBN 9781908524980 (paperback)
1908524987 (paperback)
9781912242139 (hardcover)
1912242133 (hardcover)
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