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| Author | Nelson DeMille |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Delacorte Press |
Publication date | 1984 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 422 |
| ISBN | 9780385293228 |
| OCLC | 10163038 |
The Talbot Odyssey is a 1984 novel by American author Nelson DeMille.
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| Author | Nelson DeMille |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Delacorte Press |
Publication date | 1984 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 422 |
| ISBN | 9780385293228 |
| OCLC | 10163038 |
The Talbot Odyssey is a 1984 novel by American author Nelson DeMille.
Tony Abrams, a former police detective who served at the NYPD's Intelligence Division, [1] is working as the office's investigator for the O'Brien, Kimberly, and Rose law firm of New York. He stumbles upon a swirl of intrigue that leads to discovery that for over forty years there is an active mole, code-named Talbot, within the CIA.
Talbot's mission is to carry out a secret plan devised by rogue elements in the USSR government, to attack the United States with a first-strike weapon, an unprecedented attack that would cause a mortal blow to the country. It is up to Abrams and the lawyer Katherine Kimberly to stop him.
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The Sniper is a 1974 thriller novel by American author Nelson DeMille. It was DeMille's first published novel. The Sniper introduces character NYPD Sergeant, Joe Ryker. Like the other books in the Joe Ryker series, it was re-published in 1989 with the author as "Jack Cannon."
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The Cuban Affair is Nelson DeMille's 20th novel. DeMille had earlier novels win a place on the New York Times bestseller list. According to Publishers Weekly, Simon & Schuster had scheduled its release for September 17, 2017.
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