State of terror : a novel

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State of Terror follows Ellen Adams, a novice Secretary of State, who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out of touch and out of power in the places where it counts the most. This high-stakes thriller of international intrigue features behind-the-scenes global drama informed by details only an insider could know.

Edition:

Large print edition.

Physical Description:

675 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.

Genre:

Thrillers (Fiction)

Large type books.

Corporate Subject:

United States. Department of State -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

Terrorists -- Fiction.

Terrorism -- Fiction.

Conspiracies -- Fiction.

Female friendship -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Foreign relations -- Fiction.

United States -- Politics and government -- Fiction.

Author(s):

Penny, Louise,

Publisher:

Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company,

Publication Date:

2021

ISBN:

9781432889838

Publication Information:

Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2021.

Call Number:

LP CLINTON

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A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray, and the Secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out of touch and out of power in the places where it counts the most.

Author Notes

Louise Penny was born in Toronto, Canada in 1958. She earned a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Radio and Television) from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Ryerson University) in 1979. Before she turned to writing mystery novels in 2004, she was a journalist and radio host for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in various cities across Canada for 25 years. She writes the Chief Inspector Gamache Novel series. She has won numerous awards including the New Blood Dagger, Arthur Ellis, Barry, Anthony, and Dilys awards for Still Life and the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel for A Fatal Grace.

Louise's title, The Long Way Home, made the Hot Mystery Title's List for Summer 2014. Her titles The Nature of the Beast made The New York Times best seller list in 2015 and A Great Reckoning made The New York Times best seller list in 2016.

(Bowker Author Biography)