Scorpion (novel)

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Scorpion is a spy thriller novel by Andrew Kaplan, published by Macmillan in hardcover in 1985 and as a Warner Books paperback in 1986. It hit best-seller lists in Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany and Greece.

Andrew Gary Kaplan is an American author, best known for his spy thriller novels. He was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 18, 1941. He went to Stuyvesant High School and Brooklyn College and after serving in the U.S. Army, he went to Europe and Africa, where he worked as a free-lance journalist and war correspondent for the International Herald Tribune in Paris. He served in the Israeli Army during the Six-Day War of 1967. As a student leader in Israel, he helped start what was initially called the University of the Negev and the Israeli Olympic fencing team. After graduating in 1970 from Tel Aviv University, he earned his MBA at Oregon State University. He has been a technology businessman and is the author of eight international best-selling novels, which have been translated into 21 languages around the world: Hour of the Assassins, Scorpion, Dragonfire, War of the Raven and the other books of the Scorpion and Homeland series: Scorpion Betrayal, Scorpion Winter, Scorpion Deception, and Homeland: Carrie's Run, a bestselling original novel prequel to the hit award-winning Homeland television series. His second book in the Homeland series, Homeland: Saul's Game, won the 2015 Scribe Award for Best Original Media Tie-in Novel.

Macmillan Publishers British publishing company

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As the President of Russia dies, his deputy, Fyedorenko makes a mysterious phone call. A beautiful young American woman, Kelly Ormont, is brutally abducted from the streets of Paris into white slavery. In a safe house in Pakistan, a senior CIA director, Bob Harris, recruits a free-lance ex-CIA agent, codenamed “Scorpion” to rescue Kelly, a Congressman’s daughter, last seen on a flight to Bahrain. The Scorpion follows the trail to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, where he uncovers a plot to assassinate the King of Arabia, while flashbacks reveal the Scorpion’s past as the orphaned son of an American oilman raised by a Bedouin desert tribe. At the King’s Camel Race, the Scorpion manages to foil the assassination plot. He is captured, but manages to escape with Kelly and kill Prince Sa'ad, author of the assassination plot. In Washington, the Scorpion confronts Harris who reveals the whole thing was a CIA and French SDECE plot to pre-empt the Russians in the Gulf with Kelly in on it, thinking she was working for the Israelis. Fyedorenko is replaced by an accomplice because of the plot’s failure as the Scorpion returns to his shadowy battles in Afghanistan.

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References

  1. Scorpion (Warner paperback), Amazon.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-23.
  2. Scorpion (Warner paperback), AbeBooks.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-23.