Countdown

Resumen del libro

An undercover CIA officer has seven days to save her country from the world's most dangerous double-agent. The CIA's highly classified Special Activities Division is in the business of tracking people down and keeping secrets hidden. Then a botched field operation reveals some dark dealings between an officer's superiors and an informant, including a plot that could kill thousands of Americans.

Knowing that her leadership is corrupt to the core, intelligence officer Amy Cornwall is forced to give up her identity and work from the shadows. But it's not easy staying hidden when your enemies are elite intelligence operatives. Will she get the truth out into the light before losing her identity, her history, her family?The countdown has already begun.

Biografía del autor

p strong James Patterson /strong es uno de los narradores más populares de los últimos tiempos. Es el creador de personajes y series inolvidables, incluidos Alex Cross, el Club de las Mujeres contra el Crimen, Jane Effing Smith y Maximum Ride; de impresionantes historias reales sobre los Kennedy, John Lennon y la princesa Diana, y de héroes militares, agentes de policía y enfermeras de urgencias. Es coautor de novelas número uno en ventas junto a nombres de la talla de Bill Clinton y Dolly Parton. Ha sido galardonado con un Premio Edgar, diez Premios Emmy, el Premio Literario de la Fundación Nacional del Libro y el Premio Nacional Medalla de Humanidades.<br>