Description
An army roadblock. An American intelligence agent. A jetlagged afternoon on the Somalian plain. Michael Teak is not afraid of mercenaries. Life here comes at a price and as a CIA operative, Teak is holding the money. On the back seat of his car is a suitcase stuffed with narcotics; in the front, a gun and an envelope of US dollars. And then a bomb explodes.
Thirty innocent victims. An entire village of women and children - all dead. And just like that, Michael Teak does not know anything for sure. Was he the target, or the scapegoat for mass murder with an international fallout? Abandoned, perhaps betrayed, by his employer, Teak is in the wind with nowhere to turn. Even his old sources are caught up in the media bloodbath back at his alma mater. These events have to be connected. Someone, somewhere, has all the cards and for a man running right down to the wire, the rules of the game are becoming dangerously blurred.
The remarkable new novel from Nick McDonell, An Expensive Education cuts between the African bush and Harvard - taking its readers deep inside this iconic university and the inner workings of the American intelligence service. 'One of the most exciting new writers around.' Independent on Sunday
About the Author
Nick McDonell was born in 1984 in New York City. A graduate of Harvard University, he is the author of two previous novels, Twelve and The Third Brother.
Reviews
"'One of the most exciting new writers around.' Independent on Sunday * Twelve was a top-ten fiction bestseller and has now sold over 100,000 copies * 'Terrific, a thriller noir that's difficult to put down or forget.' Entertainment Weekly 'Ingeniously combines elements of an international thriller with a campus novel set at Harvard.' New York Times Review of Books"
Book Information
ISBN 9781848870635
Author Nick McDonell
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Atlantic Books
Publisher Atlantic Books
Weight(grams) 287g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 22mm
