Author : Morris West
Book Type : Hardback
Publisher : William Morrow & Company
Edition : Book Club Edition
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number : No Listing
ISBN Number : No Listing
Copyright Date : 1974
Dimensions : 8 ½” High x 5 ¾” Wide x ¾” Thick
Inventory Number : 000-000-187
Original Retail Price : $ Unknown
Publisher's reported availability: Out Of Print
Every old book is a new adventure for anyone who has never read it. ®
Description : Head of a prestigious European bank, George Harlequin belongs to a vanishing class of gentlemen whose handshake is their bond. But when an envious corporate raider frames Harlequin for murder, no deed is too dirty if it will save Harlequin's reputation, his bank and his life.
From the front and back flaps…
Like The Salamander, its global best-selling predecessor, Harlequin takes the form of a thriller, with all the action, excitement and surprise that the term implies. At the same time it explores in depth a contemporary phenomenon as fateful as it is terrifying.
The focus is on the new wholesalers of violence. These are the men, who, through the sophisticated use of computers, literally program human beings to murderous acts, assembling the personnel and procedures for a hijacking or kidnapping here, a quiet assassination there…
This time the target for take-over is a highly reputable family-owned Swiss bank with branches in a number of capitals of the world. In the process governments are suborned, reputations diminished or ruined, lives snuffed out, and even decent men driven themselves to violence as the only antidote. The settings are Geneva, London, Washington, Mexico City, New York. The time is now.
A page-turner if there ever was one, Harlequin remains an eloquently serious achievement. The questions it poses are deeply disturbing. For example, in a lawless society, is one justified in taking the law into his own hands?
Perhaps in an upside-down world only the harlequin, the clown, has the final answers. Yet the moral stance in these pages seems clear; in a world in which money and power, sustained by violence, are the only watchwords, ;the Year of the Assassins” has no end.
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