Ride a Pale Horse

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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984 - Fiction - 355 pages
When Karen Cornell, a beautiful journalist on assignment in Czechoslovakia, agrees to help a would-be defector by carrying top-secret documents to Washington, With the papers safely in the hands of Peter Bristow, the one CIA man Karen can trust, she is sure her part of the drama is over. But soon she is pulled into an astonishing web of terrorism, political assassination, blackmail, espionage, and treason in the highest levels of both superpowers. There is a mole in the CIA and its Bristow's job to find it, as well as protecting Karen from an unknown enemy. One false move could cost Karen her life-and throw the world into a violent war.

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Helen MacInnes was born in Glasgow, Scotland on October 7, 1907. In 1928, she received a degree in French and German from the University of Glasgow in Scotland. She later studied at University College in London and worked as a librarian. She got married in 1932, moved to New York in 1937, and became an American citizen in 1952. In 1939, she began writing suspense novels and won the Columbia Prize for Literature in 1966. Many of her novels were adapted into movies including Above Suspicion, Assignment in Brittany, The Venetian Affair, and The Salzburg Connection. She died from the effects of a stroke on September 30, 1985 at the age of 77.

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