A MOST WANTED MAN

Viking, Toronto, 2008, 1^st/1^st thus.  ISBN 978-0-670-06912-5.  Hard cover, 340 pages.  Near fine; very light edge and cover wear; binding tight with headbands.  Dust jacket with price intact shows light lower edge wear with light creasing.  Book interior clean and unmarked.  ‘A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night.  He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck.  He is a devout Muslim.  Or is he?  He says his name is Issa.  Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation.  Soon her client’s survival becomes more important to her than her own career – or safety.  In pursuit of Issa’s mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Freres, a failing British bank based in Hamburg.  Annabel, Issa and Brue form an unlikely alliance – and a triangle of impossible loves is born.  Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the “War on Terror,” the rival spies of Germany, England and America converge upon the innocents.’ (from front flap)