by Michael Crichton
(1967)
Publisher: Open Road Media
Scratch One is one of Michael Crichton’s early novels, written under the name of John Lange.
A group of terrorists is trying to stop an arms deal by targeting and assassinating people across multiple countries. The United States is sending in a big bad agent to take down the terrorists.
To prevent an arms shipment from reaching the Middle East a terrorist group has been carrying out targeted assassinations in Egypt…Portugal…Denmark…France. In response, the United States sends one of its deadliest agents to take the killers down.
But when the agent is delayed in transit, lawyer Roger Carr gets mistaken for him. Now, with some of the world’s deadliest men after him, will he survive long enough to prove his identity?
Scratch One follows Roger Carr, an American lawyer who has been assigned the posh job of acquiring a half-billion-dollar villa in France for a wealthy client.
Carr is a lawyer, but he has no love for Lady Justice. A dilettante playboy sent to France on a cushy assignment, he lands himself right in the middle of an international arms deal. Both sides of the conflict have mistaken him for an agent, and the secret service interventions of a dozen countries will do anything to secure him—dead or alive.
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