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The Rare Earth Exchange (Larivière Espionage Thrillers Book 2)
A team of freelance spies gets caught up in a web of corruption and terrorism in a struggle to control rare minerals key to today’s technology.
Shortlisted for the 2015 Quais du Polar Series Prize
Panic strikes at the highest levels of the French government when the former president is found hanging from the rafters in his home right after a terrorist attack at the airport. Is it suicide or assassination? Freelance operative John Spencer Larivière, his karate-trained partner Victoire, and their computer-genius sidekick Luc must find out what he was hiding. Quickly, the investigation turns into a globe-spanning confrontation in a world of high-frequency trading where manipulation and corruption reign. Larivière races against the clock to find out who is pulling the strings.
Bernard Besson, an expert in economic intelligence, writes “masterfully paced and wondrously prescient” modern-day spy thrillers, set in a post-Panama Papers world.
“With a sharp sense of what is at stake in today’s world of espionage and global economic warfare, Bernard Besson has written a fast-paced, intelligent and entirely plausible thriller.” —Bookseller review
“From Paris to Malaysia, once again Besson’s fast-paced prose uncovers the deepest, darkest and most violent realities of our times.” —Le Monde de l’écrit
The Author:
Bernard Besson is a former top French intelligence officer, an expert in economic intelligence, and a prize-winning thriller writer of ten thrillers. He was involved in dismantling Soviet spy rings in France and Western Europe when the USSR fell and has real inside knowledge from his work auditing intelligence services and the police. He lives in Paris.