01231cam a2200253 4500 416591608 TxAuBib 20101102120000.0 090805s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009003814 9780307272621 0307272621 DLC DLC YDX BTCTA YDXCP UPZ JRG NSB FTL GPI CDX KKM TxAuBib Carter, Stephen L., 1954- Jericho's fall / Stephen L. Carter. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 355 p. ; 25 cm. "A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso. In an imposing house in the Colorado Rockies, Jericho Ainsley, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and a Wall Street titan, lies dying. He summons to his bedside Beck DeForde, the younger woman for whom he threw away his career years ago, miring them both in scandal. Beck believes she is visiting to say farewell. Instead, she is drawn into a battle over an explosive secret that foreign governments and powerful corporations alike want to wrest from Jericho before he dies. Suspicion Fiction. Official secrets Fiction. Terminally ill Fiction. Suspense fiction.