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Author Johnson, Denis, 1949-2017, author.

Title The laughing monsters / Denis Johnson.

Publication Info. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2015.
©2014

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  LP FICTION JOHNSON    Check Shelf
Edition Large print edition.
Description 299 pages (print large) ; 23 cm.
Physical Medium large print. rda
Series Thorndike Press large print thriller
Thorndike Press large print thriller.
Note "A novel."
Summary "Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a US passport. After ten years' absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of money here during the country's civil war, and, curious to see whether good luck will strike twice in the same place, Nair has allowed himself to be drawn back to a region he considers hopeless. Adriko is an African who styles himself a soldier of fortune and who claims to have served, at various times, with the Ghanaian army, the Kuwaiti Emiri Guard, and the American Green Berets. He's probably broke now, but he remains, at thirty-six, as stirred by his own doubtful schemes as he was a decade ago. Although Nair believes some kind of money-making plan lies behind it all, Adriko's stated reason for inviting his friend to Freetown is for Nair to meet Adriko's fiancée, a grad student from Colorado named Davidia. Together the three set out to visit Adriko's clan in the Uganda-Congo borderland--but each of these travelers is keeping secrets from the others"--Publisher description.
Subject North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- Officials and employees -- Fiction.
Intelligence service -- Fiction.
World politics -- Fiction.
Africa -- Fiction.
Spy stories.
Genre/Form Thrillers (Fiction) (OCoLC)fst01726755
Spy fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726748
Political fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726702
Spy stories.
Suspense fiction.
Large print books.
Political fiction.
Spy stories.
Thrillers (Fiction)
ISBN 9781410476562 (large print ; hardcover)
1410476561 (large print ; hardcover)
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