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Name: The Traitor
Author: Stephen Coonts

The death of a French intelligence agent aboard an Air France flight to Amman triggers a high‑stakes investigation within European Union intelligence circles and the CIA. The Americans discover that the French agency's director secretly owns stakes in the Bank of Palestine, raising immediate suspicion. To probe the matter, the CIA brings retired field operative Jake Grafton out of retirement, pairing him with seasoned agent Tommy Carmellini. The duo unravels an intricate plan to infiltrate the upper echelons of Al Qaida, with a top‑level plant set up to sow chaos. As they dig deeper, Grafton and Carmellini confront a chilling scheme that could destabilize the West and face a fatal dilemma: stop the plot while preserving the intelligence source that might otherwise bring down Al Qaida once and for all.

First publish date: 2006

Genre: Thriller/Political Thriller

Authors: Stephen Coonts

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