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Author:	Philip Shelby	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster	ISBN-10:	0684801779
ISBN-13:	9780684801773	Category:	Action, Adventure
Publication Year:	1996	Sub-Category:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Language:	English
Condition:	Acceptable

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Synopsis
Rookie secret service agent Holland Tylo is devastated when charismatic Senator Charles Westbourne is gruesomely murdered on her watch. Isolated and discredited, Tylo discovers that the senator's death is only the tip of a larger conspiracy--a scheme detailed on a computer diskette she now possesses. Soon Holland is caught in a web of betrayal, hiding from the people she trusted most and running from a devious killer.
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Length:	318 pages
Height:	9.8 in.
Width:	6.8 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	22.4 oz.

Publisher's Note
Landing the most promising assignment of her career, Secret Service agent Holland Tylo is charged with protecting Senator Charles Westbourne, whose untimely death locks Holland in the vise of a conspiracy.
Industry reviews
The publisher is really pushing this story of a rookie secret service agent who's on the line when the senator she is assigned to protect is assassinated. Adams In this fast and furious but overly calculated thriller, a female Secret Service agent is set up to take the fall for the assassination of a powerful senator. As a child, little Holland Tylo endured a ``spray of blood'' from the body of her father, also a U.S. senator, when he was pierced by an assassin's bullets. This traumatic event, in Shelby's hands, is supposed to explain not only why Tylo grew up to become a Secret Service agent but also why she is so driven to find the killer of Senator Charles Westbourne, who is slain after insisting that Tylo, who's guarding him, let him have a little privacy. Primed to take the fall for Westbourne's death, Tylo turns out to be the unwitting owner of a computer disk that contains the dead man's smoking-gun evidence against powerful members of the government and the killer knows this, because Tylo is trusting the wrong people. But instead of turning into a cat-and-mouse game or a gritty procedural, the novel quickly comes to resemble only a fleshed-out screenplay, where the seen-it-before plot has Tylo framed for murder, branded as a rogue agent and sent into hiding from where, with the help of a few loyal friends, she attempts to clear her name, reveal the conspiracy and bring the killer and the guilty to justice. This is thriller-writing by the numbers a lot of drive and a lot of energy, but very little heart or feeling for devastating events, like the death of a lover; there are too many unflattering echoes of the movie In the Line of Fire, as well. If Shelby (Oasis of Dreams, 1992) set out to write a novel destined to become a soulless but action-filled movie blockbuster, he's succeeded. 250,000 first printing; film rights to Tri-Star; Simon & Schuster Audio. (Jan.) Bernstein

Here is a nice book in very good condition. It looks like a first edition in 2004. The DJ and the book are almost excellent...except for a crossed out rubber stamp on the top of the pages. Otherwise clean, tight and solid. I could not find any other notable dings or marks. #330e9-000

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