01434cam a2200301 i 4500 295888814 TxAuBib 20100106120000.0 090209s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009003814 9780307272621 $25.95 0307272621 $25.95 (OCoLC)290466908 DLC eng rda DLC BTCTA OCLCQ YDXCP UPZ JRG NSB CO2 TxAuBib rda Carter, Stephen L., 1954- Jericho's fall [BOOK] / Stephen L. Carter. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 355 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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 beside 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. 20100106. Suspicion Fiction. Official secrets Fiction. Terminally ill Fiction.