In this third installment of a series lauded for its "nonstop action,"
an international spy must face a ring of ruthless masterminds and foil a
plot with global implications as he becomes the world's most wanted man
(Booklist).
Life is good for Rafael de Bourbon. The forty-year-old Spaniard recently
married to a wealthy English beauty, and is days away from opening a
luxury boutique hotel off the southern coast of Thailand. But when the
Royal Thai Police storm the hotel and arrest him for blackmail and
extortion, "Rafa" is thrown into Bangkok's most notorious jail. In
desperation, he reaches out to the one man who can prove his innocence.
Simon Riske, ex-con and now "private spy," owes Rafa his life. Once he
and De Bourbon were the closest of friends, until a woman came between
them. Riske rushes to Bangkok to secure his friend's release and
overnight, finds himself caught up in a web of intrigue larger and more
dangerous than he could imagine. In hours, it is Riske who finds himself
the wanted man.
On the run in a foreign country, pursued by powerful unseen forces who
will stop at nothing until he is killed, Riske must stay alive long
enough to uncover the truth behind an international conspiracy that
threatens to wreak carnage across the glittering capitals of Europe.
From Bangkok to Singapore and ultimately to Cannes, Riske enlists the
help of a daring investigative reporter, a rogue Mossad agent, and his
own band of home-grown specialists, to thwart the cabal behind the plot,
only to learn its very origins are frighteningly close to his past.
Frighteningly timely, diabolically clever, and ever so stylish, The
Palace is Christopher Reich's sharpest and most exciting book yet.
