Agent of Influence

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Synopsis
A young Wall Street dealmaker named Jayson Lyman gets an assignment. News/Worldweek, the media conglomerate that controls many of the nation's top newspapers, magazines, and TV stations, has been targeted for a takeover by French magnate Marcel Bresson. Beating him should be a snap, says Lyman; no one wants a foreigner running the American press. I hope you're wrong, says his boss--because he's your client. The more Lyman learns, the more shadowy Bresson seems--no fixed address, no financial partners, blanks in his past. Lyman is baffled by him--until he meets Heidi Bruce, deputy director of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who is trying to convince the US government that the Soviets are using advanced intelligence technology to manipulate Western financial markets--and thereby Western governments. With the help of Sean Gordon, maverick CIA agent and Heidi's former lover, they race across Europe, following a trail of deception and death in search of Bresson's true identity, alarming not only the KGB but the CIA and the French Deuxieme Bureau. Convinced that America's biggest press empire may well end up under Soviet control--but unable to convince anyone else but Heidi and Sean--Lyman must choose between the deal of a lifetime and his country's future. Despite his rivalry with Gordon, and with Wall Street and the intelligence services of East and West arrayed against him, he joins with the two others in a desperate plan to stop the Bresson takeover--but even they cannot predict the wild chain of events they will set in motion. As Agent of Influence speeds to its climax, we are swept into a world of exceptional drama and treachery--one that is more fact than fiction.
Copyright:
1989

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
416 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780399133787
Publisher:
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
David Aaron
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
Submitted By:
Larry Lumpkin
Proofread By:
Nichole Veith
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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