Dance with the Dragon

McGarvey (Volume 12)

David Hagberg

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The CIA is on edge. All signs indicate that something is coming at the United States. Perhaps another 9/11, maybe bigger.
 
The body of CIA agent Louis Updegraf ends up on the steps of the US Embassy in Mexico. His last operation was to tap into the communications of the Chinese Embassy, but there is no record of why. He appeared to be freelancing and the Agency must scramble to get a clue as to what he was after.

Kirk McGarvey, serving as a visiting professor at the University of Florida, is once again longing for the action of the field. So when his old friend Otto Rencke asks him to help figure out the connection between China and the murdered agent, it takes almost no effort to get McGarvey up and running.

The only informant they can find is an enigmatic Iranian belly dancer—the dark and lovely Shahrzad Shadmand. But her story changes with the wind, and her knowledge of McGarvey’s past is uncanny. Kirk McGarvey must unravel her shattered mind to get to something that might resemble the truth.  

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The foothills of northern Mexico’s Sierra Madre were bathed in the cold silver light of a full October moon as Louis Updegraf stopped a moment behind a stand of pine trees to catch his breath. Somehow everything had gone horribly wrong over the past two weeks, and this evening he was running for his life because of what he’d learned. The job was no longer a game.
At thirty-three he was a tall man, well built, with a dark complexion and a large Gallic nose. Not so long ago, someone he thought was a friend had told him that he could be Gerard Depardieu’s

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"Hagberg once again displays his wide and deep inside knowledge of intelligence and military tradecraft."--Publishers Weekly on Allah's Scorpion
 
“David Hagberg writes the most realistic, prophetic thrillers I have ever read. His books should be required reading in Washington.”—Stephen Coonts  
 
“David Hagberg runs in the same fast, high-tech track as Clancy and his gung-ho colleagues, with lots of war games, fancy weapons, and much male bonding.”--The New York Daily News

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David Hagberg

David Hagberg has published numerous novels of suspense, including his bestselling thrillers featuring former CIA director Kirk McGarvey, which include Abyss, The Cabal, The Expediter, and Allah’s Scorpion. He has earned a nomination for the American Book Award, three nominations for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award and three Mystery Scene Best American Mystery awards. He has spent more than thirty years researching and studying US-Soviet relations during the Cold War. Hagberg joined the Air Force out of high school, and during the height of the Cold War, he served as an Air Force cryptographer. He attended the University of Maryland and University of Washington. Born in Duluth, Minnesota, he now lives with his wife Laurie in Sarasota, Florida.

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Dance with the Dragon
McGarvey (Volume 12)
David Hagberg

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Tom Doherty Associates
Forge Books
December 2008
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ISBN: 9780765347343
ISBN10: 0765347342
4 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches, 448 pages
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