ISBN |
9780857057891 (paperback) |
Name |
Berg, Mattias author. |
Uniform title |
D©ıdens Triumf. English |
Title |
The carrier / Mattias Berg ; translated from the Swedish by George Goulding. |
Published |
London : MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus Publishing, 2019. |
©2019 |
Description |
479 pages ; 25 cm |
Notes |
First published in the Swedish language as D©ıdens Triumf by Natur & Kultur, Stockholm, in 2016. |
"The man with the nuclear briefcase has gone rogue" --Cover. |
Summary |
Erasmus Levine has a job like no other. He travels with the President of the United States at all times, and holds in his hands the power to obliterate life as we know it. He is the man with the nuclear briefcase, part of a crack team of top-secret operatives established after 9/11, led by a man codenamed Edelweiss. But not even Edelweiss is party to the identity of their ultimate authority, known only as Alpha. Erasmus Levine has a secret. For years he has been receiving cryptic messages from Alpha, an elaborate communication that began with the words we two against the world. Levine begins thinking of escape: his chance comes during an official visit to Sweden, when the alarm sounds in Stockholm's Grand Hotel. But Alpha has other plans. From their first meeting in a network of tunnels and bunkers beneath the city, Levine is drawn into a plan to eliminate the world's nuclear arsenals. But is controlled demolition really the endgame? Could he be working towards a controlled apocalypse, a doomsday plot to wipe humanity from the face of the Earth? |
Language note |
Translated from the Swedish. |
Subjects |
United States. -- Secret Service -- Officials and employees -- Fiction |
Presidents -- United States -- Fiction |
Nuclear weapons information -- Fiction |
Nuclear warfare -- Fiction |
Nuclear terrorism -- Fiction |
Sweden -- Fiction |
Genre |
Thrillers (Fiction) |
Other Names |
Goulding, George (Translator) translator. |
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