Bibliograph

The American ambassador, Ward Just

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The American ambassador, Ward Just

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The American ambassador

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Ward Just

Summary

The American Ambassador is at once a riveting tale of suspense and a thoughtful meditation on the fragility of Western values in an age of terrorism. William North is a Foreign Service officer who fiercely loves his family and his country. His son, brilliant and thoroughly disaffected, sees his father as the embodiment of all that is corrupt in Western democracies. When the younger North aligns himself with a German terrorist organization, the conflict between father and son escalates to a matter of national security. In this breathtaking novel, Ward Just takes us inside the mind of a terrorist, revealing the eerie logic at work there

Target audience

adult

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