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    Rules of Deception

    Written by Christopher Reich

    Narrated by Paul Michael

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Dr. Jonathan Ransom, world-class mountaineer and surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, is climbing in the Swiss Alps with his beautiful wife, Emma, when a blizzard sets in. In their bid to escape the storm, Emma is killed when she falls into a hidden crevasse.

    Twenty-four hours later, Jonathan receives an envelope addressed to his wife containing two baggage-claim tickets. Puzzled, he journeys to a remote railway station only to find himself in a life-and-death struggle for his wife's possessions. In the aftermath of the assault, he discovers that his attackers-one dead, the other mortally wounded-were, in fact, Swiss police officers. More frightening still is evidence of an extraordinary act of betrayal that leaves Jonathan stunned.

    Suddenly the subject of an international manhunt and the target of a master assassin, Jonathan is forced on the run. His only chance at survival lies in uncovering the devastating truth behind the secret his wife kept from him and in stopping the terrifying conspiracy that threatens to bring the world to the brink of annihilation. Step by step, he is drawn deeper into a world of spies, high-tech weaponry, and global terrorism-a world where no one is whom they appear to be and where the end always justifies the means.

    Rules of Deception is a brilliantly conceived, twisting tale of intrigue and deceit written by the master of the espionage thriller for the twenty-first century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 15, 2008
    ISBN9780739358016
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    • 5/5
      DATE:June 2008TITLE:Rules of DeceptionAUTHOR:Christopher ReichPUBLISHER:DoubledayCOPYRIGHT:July 2008RATING:4.5 out of 5Christopher Reich absolutely has a winner with this book. Rules of Deception has it all. With a full and varied cast of characters, current political climates in different parts of the world, and enough action it keeps you up all night trying to figure out the roles of everyone. No one should be turned off in the beginning by the large number of players in this world wide tale. They all very quickly melt together and have you picking up speed through each phase of this very complex adventure.Not only does Mr. Reich weave a great plot of espionage in the 21st century and all very believable, I am hoping that the ending purposely left room for Dr. Ransom and his lovely Emma to come back in a sequel. I took this book on vacation and it did not last two full days.
    • 5/5
      A fast passed edge-of-your-seat thriller that keeps you turning pages and guessing until the very end. I'm going to start another of his books today.
    • 3/5
      Although I enjoyed this book, and it started with a bang, I thought it had many convoluted subplots, and sometimes had to re-read some parts to remember what happened. In general, a fun and entertaining book to read.
    • 4/5
      I liked this book. I wish I had read it before Rules of Vengeance.Quite a few twists & turns in the plot with an interesting ending.
    • 3/5
      This is a thriller set mostly in Switzerland. Jonathan Ransom is an American doctor working for Doctors without Borders in Geneva. He is on a ski outing with his wife Emma when she is killed in a mishap. After her death, he discovers she was leading a double life as a spy, and follows her trail to try to figure out what she was up to.
    • 2/5
      Rules? We have no stinking rules in this thriller. Throw out any player’s rule book or any company’s policy manual. Anything that seems normal…isn’t.Deception is afoot everywhere, including the novel’s twisted deployment:•A seeming butterfly (actually a micro-airborne vehicle) morphs into a full-blown drone that carries a nacelle containing 20 kilos of Semtex plastic explosives. •An adrenalin-seeking Doctors Without Borders physician, Jonathan Ransom, is duped into the role of cop-killer, terrorist within an international espionage rampage initiated upon the lethal accident of his wife. •Jonathan’s spouse, Emma Everett Rose, is disguised as Eva Kruger who transforms into Cary Ransom. •Hot on Jonathan’s trail is Chief Inspector Marcus von Daniken, head of his homeland’s domestic security, who is thwarted and misled by his superior, Alphons Marti, Switzerland’s minister of justice. •CIA agent, Paul Palumbo, fools von Daniken about an Al-Qaeda operative Palumbo is secreting away to discover an extremist plot only later to be blindsided by Defense Department lackey, James Austen, who heads an ultra-secret group called the Division.•Emma’s best friend, Simone Noiret, is drawn into some of Jonathan’s adventures during which she shows her true colors in the finale.•A Swiss high-end engineering firm, ZIAG, is not actually owned by the Swiss nor is it manufacturing and distributing everyday consumables.•Despite enormous embargoes, mundane Iranian industries are producing high-grade plutonium at an alarming rate.•An apparent extremist plot cloaks an inter-agency struggle to undermine and destroy Middle Eastern balance.•Meanwhile, the Israelis are saber-rattling toward nuclear exchanges with Iran that might be ignited by the deployment of—the butterfly.This book is one of those near page-turners wherein interspersed chapters follow the deliberations and actions in three or four different arenas until they combust in an almost unbelievable, albeit riveting, conclusion.
    • 4/5
      I received “Rules of Deception” by Christopher Reich as a giveaway copy. It is an espionage thriller, filled with fast action, fast cars and international intrigue. It is a high action adventure whose main character Dr. Johnathan Ransom, is a surgeon with‘’Doctors Without Borders whose wife Emma is killed during a freak accident during a skiing trip in the Swiss Alps. This is a book with twists and turns and although it is a bit longer than I would have liked, it was a bit difficult to keep the characters straight and the sub plots in clear relation to the main story line.Ransom becomes a hunted man, being chased by the police and a possible assassin called the “the ghost.” This all follows after finding out that his wife had many secrets and it seems, has a second secret life. He must find out the truth about Emma to both save his own life and to understand her other life so that he can be at rest with his memories of their life and love together. It is a good summer read but did not hold my interest as strongly as those of Baldacci, Child or Iles. It is a good and current story line and I appreciate receiving the giveaway copy of this book from Anchor Books. I will read more of Reich’s books to become more familiar with his characters and writing style.
    • 3/5
      This is a pretty good spy story. The hero seems unbelievably clueless about his own life and caught up in things he doesn't begin to understand. Many disparate threads that take a while to come together, and it's not completely clear even at the end who all the good guys and bad guys are. Still...there is a lot of detail and it moves well. A good read for those who like spy-type stories.
    • 4/5
      First-rate thriller. The story is weaved together from a series of plotlines that leave you wondering how on earth everything is going to fit together. A Swiss policeman and an American CIA agent comprise two of the threads, and those two are really well done - extremely realistic if you can buy into the rulebreaking. I doubt, though, that there are quite so many agents that are willing to bend standard operating procedures as these two.The main plotline is a little less compelling. The author makes some effort to justify his hero's Bond-esque performance with some character development, but it's almost immediately clear as you read it that it's only there to justify later heroics. But the final resolution that ties everything together is about as well done as it could be. It involves a nightmarish war scenario, as all good thrillers do, and putting one together than unfolds credibly is a difficult task. Reich accomplishes it as well as anyone.
    • 5/5
      Listened to all 12 discs on car trip from FL to NC and back. This author was recommended to me. I am impressed by the detail of his story.The story is a wife dies and the husband discovers she was not who he thought and, in fact, had a double life. This is very suspenseful and certainly made the drive quick and pleasant.I will read more by him.
    • 5/5
      A page turner, loved it!
    • 3/5
      I usually "read" my books by listening to audiobooks. I got this one from LT member give-away, so I vowed to finish it no matter what. It turned out to be tough decision.This book left me feeling less than satisfied. The plot, in my opinion, is not that credible. Two competing U.S. spy agencies killing each other;one of them plots to shoot down an Israeli airliner to frame Iran whose government is busy building a nuclear bomb. And main character,Dr. Ransom, seems jumping out of a 007 movie. Although he is a medical doctor without no formal spy training he masters every skill of the trade. of course, at end, the good guys prevail.In general, the story was just not that well planned and paced.
    • 3/5
      Good thriller. Lots of twists and turns in this story.
    • 3/5
      A lot of plotlines here - confusing at times, and even at the end it was hard to get everyone sorted out. But it kept me reading and the overall themes were interesting, if scary.
    • 4/5
      This isn't the genre of book that I usually read. As a fast moving story of International Espionage, I was never sure where the story would turn next and who or whom could be trusted. The story is set in a post-9/11 era and many of the details reflect our modern world. I have to wonder how much of the story is fiction and how much is true. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a story that makes you question the current events you read in the daily paper or see on the news.