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Honour Among Thieves (1993) is a novel by English author Jeffrey Archer. The book takes place in 1993 with Saddam Hussein planning to retaliate against the United States after the events of the Gulf War.
Author | Jeffrey Archer |
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Language | English |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Publication date | 4 July 1993 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 416 |
ISBN | 0-06-017945-7 |
OCLC | 27976980 |
823/.914 20 | |
LC Class | PR6051.R285 H66 1993 |
When the United States defeats Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam Hussein plans to humiliate the victors by stealing the American Declaration of Independence and publicly burning it on 4 July in full view of world media. To achieve this, his Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations enlists the help of Antonio Cavalli, a lawyer and one of the leading figures of the New York mafia, for a sum of $100,000,000.
An Israeli, Hannah Kopec, a young ex-model Mossad agent with a personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein, is involved in a plot to assassinate him. In the United States, the government finds that the Declaration of Independence has been swapped with a forgery. Scott Bradley, a Yale Law professor, who has been working undercover tracking Kopec through Paris, is assigned by the CIA to work with her to recover the document before 4 July.
References
edit- Archer, J. (1993). Honour Among Thieves. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-330-41903-1
- Factsheet. Official Site for Jeffrey Archer. Retrieved 24 November 2006 from