THE MADMEN OF BENGHAZI, available for the first time
in the U.S., is a gripping, racy,
ripped-from-the-headlines espionage thriller set in
volatile post-Qaddafi Libya. Gerard de Villiers
(1[zasłonięte]918-20) spent his five-decade career cultivating
connections in the world of international intelligence,
which allowed him to anticipate geopolitical events
before they occurred--and to masterfully blend fiction
with an insider's knowledge of international affairs.
Published from 1964 until his death in 2013, his
bestselling SAS series of 200 spy novels, starring Malko
Linge, was long considered France's answer to Ian
Fleming, with Malko as his James Bond. Its hero, Malko
Linge, an Austrian aristocrat, spends his time
freelancing for the CIA in order to maintain his
ancestral home and support his playboy lifestyle. When
terrorists try to shoot down a plane carrying Libyan
prince Ibrahim al-Senussi, it is clear that someone
wants him dead. But the CIA has its own plot for the
prince: Now that Qaddafi has been overthrown, al-Senussi
is their best bet to set up a constitutional monarchy
and stem the Islamist tide in Libya. The CIA, which
needs Malko as much as he needs them, sends the Austrian
aristocrat to Cairo to learn more about al-Senussi's
plans by seducing his companion, a ravishing British
model. This mission is enormously appealing, but also
proves enormously dangerous, as the same madman of God
who is trying to kill al-Senussi also takes aim at
Malko. |
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