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Supernotes : a thriller / Agent Kasper and Luigi Carletti ; translated from the Italian by John Cullen.
A tale inspired by the life of a top-level undercover spy for the CIA and Italian intelligence services finds Agent Kasper investigating a money-printing operation in Cambodia, only to be betrayed by his two governments and subjected to a brutal incarceration.
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- ISBN: 9780385540070 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 257 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2016, ©2016.
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| Subject: | Government investigators > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Suspense fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Kitimat Public Library | Age (Text) | 32665002029736 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Nelson Public Library | F AGE (Text) | 3514830023025 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Tumbler Ridge Public Library | AF CULLE (Text) | TRL18463 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Quesnel Branch | AGE (Text) | 33923005620921 | Suspense | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Trail and District Public Library Main Branch | F AGE (Text) | 35110000536587 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Williams Lake Branch | AGE (Text) | 33923005621804 | Suspense | Volume hold | Available | - |
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A tale inspired by the life of a top-level undercover spy for the CIA and Italian intelligence services finds Agent Kasper investigating a money-printing operation in North Korea, only to be betrayed by his two governments and subjected to a brutal incarceration. - Baker & Taylor
A tale inspired by the life of a top-level undercover spy for the American CIA and Italian intelligence services finds Agent Kasper investigating a money-printing operation in North Korea only to be betrayed by his governments and subjected to a brutal incarceration. - Random House, Inc.
In the Cambodian hinterlands, a lone Western prisoner suffers through a hot, muddy, interminable sentence. Wasted by repeated torture, lack of sleep, malnutrition, and psychotropic drugs, he has been abandoned. His years of exemplary service to his government mean nothing. No one is coming for him.
This is Agent Kasper, a man with a staggering résumé: commercial airline pilot, firearms expert, highly accomplished practitioner of several of the martial arts, a secret agent par excellence. It is this incredible competence that will be his undoing. While investigating Mafia money laundering in Phnom Penh, Kasper is approached by the CIA to track down the source of the so-called supernotesâillegal U.S. banknotes counterfeited so perfectly that they are undetectable, even by sophisticated machinesâthat are flooding Southeast Asia. With patience, skill, and courage, Kasper uncovers the explosive secret behind them and is badly burned by the truth.
Meanwhile, back in Rome, a sharp, scrappy lawyer named Barbara Belli has been hired by Kasperâs family to work for his release. She has contacts in the foreign ministry, and while officials make sweeping claims about moving heaven and earth, nothing happens. Itâs more than just creaking bureaucracy. Kasper has really pissed off the wrong people.
Based on true events in the life of a former spy, Kasperâs journey makes for a shocking and spellbinding page-turner of petty corruption, high-level betrayal, and state secrets so powerful that governments will protect them by any means.
