Gambit

Antoinette Falquier

Jul 2000 · iUniverse

About this ebook

The theft of strategic and nuclear weapons from a GRU arsenal in the Ukraine gets prompt and full attention at the highest levels of the U.S. and Russian governments. But their respective intelligence communities are having considerable difficulty identifying the perpetrators, much less accurately assessing their motivation and intent. Nations known to be seeking nuclear weapons capability top the list of suspects, together with likely sub-national groups of terrorists and fanatics, and perhaps even the GRU itself.

A Russian Admiral, hero of the former Soviet Union, and his KGB friend and colleague turn up unexpectedly in the Caribbean. A Vieques island innkeeper called "The Frenchman," a stunningly beautiful Puerto Rican doctor, a Chinese majordomo, a captivating San Juan socialite, a British artist, and an outspoken priest all appear to be enmeshed in the resulting web of subterfuge. Who has the weapons? And why? Who will be targeted? And when? The nuclear theft is the first move in what becomes an international chess game of intrigue, espionage and deception against the most unlikely opposition.

About the author

ANTOINETTE FALQUIER

Born in Sydney, Australia, raised in Dakar, Tangier and Singapore, Falquier studied in the U.K., undertook her first baccalaureate in France, and a B.A. in history at the University of Maryland. She married Joseph Harned while in France, and they have three daughters, all born in Paris. She is an artist in oils, ceramics and wood.

JOSEPH HARNED

Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Harned attended Saint Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware, and studied international relations and economics at Yale University, where he received a B.A. After active duty in the U.S. Navy and five years with the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs in Paris, France, Harned worked for twenty-five years with a national, bipartisan foreign policy center in Washington, D.C. He is married to Antoinette Falquier, and they have three daughters.

Today Falquier & Harned live on a bayou in Florida and are currently working on a second novel in the trilogy begun with Gambit.