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The Madmen of Benghazi

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by Gérard de Villiers
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A gripping, ripped from the headlines espionage thriller set in volatile post-Qaddafi Libya. Featuring Malko Linge, an Austrian aristocrat who freelances for the CIA, this is the first in a series of novels by Gérard de Villiers, the bestselling French author whose sales exceed 120 million copies, and who has been hailed as France's answer to Ian Fleming.
To counter the Islamists ready to seize control of post-Qaddafi Libya, the Americans try to establish a constitutional monarchy with Ibrahim al-Senussi on the throne. When a missile narrowly misses al-Senussi's plane during his descent into Egypt, it becomes clear that someone wants him dead. The CIA sends Malko Linge to Cairo to learn more about al-Senussi's plans—by seducing his companion, a ravishing British model. This mission, although enormously appealing, becomes very dangerous, as the same conspirators who are trying to kill al-Senussi also take aim at Malko. Malko follows al-Senussi to Benghazi, where they both find themselves facing Abu Bukatalla, the Madman of God, a fundamentalist who sees control of Libya as his for the taking.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Malko Linge

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    July 29, 2014

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780345808189

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780345808189
      • File size: 2463 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 30, 2014
      De Villiers (1929–2013), the author of about a hundred spy novels featuring Austrian nobleman and freelance CIA agent Malko Linge, makes his U.S. debut with this entertaining entry first published in France in 2011. Malko goes to Cairo to find out who is trying to kill Ibrahim al-Senussi, the grandson of Libya’s King Idris, whom Muammar Qaddafi overthrew in 1967. Now that Qaddafi has been deposed, al-Senussi is the prospective head of the new Libyan government. Malko accepts his mission with gusto, as it involves seducing Cynthia Mulligan, a London model and al-Senussi’s mistress, to gain information. Malko soon gets on the track of a ruthless Islamist, Abu Bukatella, who doesn’t want a modern monarch backed by the West to rule Libya. The book is short, blazingly fast, and full of explicit sex. Readers may wonder why American publishers waited so long to bring the series to this country.

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  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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  • English

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