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“She invades the turf of John le Carré. . . . It is very good.”—Los Angeles Times Book ReviewBarrie Mayer, a beautiful Washington literary agent, arrives at London’s Heathrow Airport with plenty of time to make her flight to Budapest, where she’s planning to meet an author. The airport is crowded, but it’s not a scheduling problem that keeps Barrie from getting off the ground.
The doctors call her death a heart attack, but her best friend, Collette Cahill, has her doubts. A show more CIA agent herself, Collette knows that Barrie was carrying more than just contracts to Hungary. Then Collette gets the order from above: Find out what happened to Barrie. And, more important, what happened to her briefcase.
So Collette sets off on a search that will take her from London to Washington to the Caribbean, from restaurants to psychiatrists’ offices to bedrooms. After all—even CIA agents lose their hearts every now and then. But Collette may lose her life. . . .
“Her most far-ranging and, arguably, her best.”—New Woman . show less
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I really enjoyed this one - great twisty plot and a strong female lead character. An almost 5 star.
Collette Cahil works for the CIA in Hungary. Her good friend, Barrie, is a courier, who is murdered. Collette is asked to look into it and discovers the dark side of the CIA. Not the best but I liked it.
Well, so much for "fake news" and the silliness of conspiracy theories! My cousin, who used to be NSA, had already hinted at the CIA's attitudes and practices as depicted here, and all those click-bait YouTube videos proclaim them outright, but here's a realistic account by someone in the know.
Collette Cahill works for the CIA in Budapest, Hungary. Her good friend, Barrie Mayer, is murdered and Cahill looks into it and finds the negative side of CIA. Her suspects are all members of the CIA so it's tough to know who is lying. I like Truman's books.
A tremendously good book in it's authenticity. It exhibits the insides of a secret organization such as the CIA.
given tha t the author probably knows more about the cia than any other person i was dusappointed about how flat this book was.
Reading these with my Mom.
A favorite series.
Great mysteries and great insight into behind the scenes Washington DC.
I'm reading them ALL.
Read in 2005.
A favorite series.
Great mysteries and great insight into behind the scenes Washington DC.
I'm reading them ALL.
Read in 2005.
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Mary Margaret Truman, daughter of President Harry S. Truman, was born on February 17, 1924 in Independence, Missouri. She graduated from George Washington University in 1946. She was also known as Margaret Truman or Margaret Daniel. She was an American singer who later became the successful author of a series of murder mysteries and a number of show more works on U.S. First Ladies and First Families, including a biography of her father, President Harry S. Truman. The only child of Harry Truman and First Lady Bess Truman; she was called "Margaret" for most of her life. Truman made her concert debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 1947 and her first television appearance on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town. She substituted for Edward R. Murrow on Person to Person, and later had her own radio shows (Weekday in the 1950s and Authors in the News in the 1960s). She was active with organizations such as the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation and the Truman Centennial Committee. She published her first book, Souvenir: Margaret Truman's Own Story in 1956. She also wrote a series of mysteries set at historic locations in Washington, D. C. She died on January 29, 2008 following a brief illness. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Murder in the CIA
- Original title
- Murder in the CIA
- Original publication date
- 1987
- People/Characters
- Barrie Mayer; Collette Cahill; CIA
- Important places
- Washington, D.C., USA
- First words
- The British Virgin Islands, November 1985
Her name was Bernadette, eighteen, tall, a classic island "smooth skin," as they say there - very dark and with a velvety texture - hair the color of ink and falling to her shoulde... (show all)r blades, a full, rounded body defined beneath a clinging maroon jersey dress, a true mantwana, the island word for voluptuous woman. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I'm really going to miss Hungarian food.
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- Reviews
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- (3.28)
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- 5 — Dutch, English, German, Russian, Spanish
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- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 19
- ASINs
- 7
