Gideon
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ISBN: 0345423461 / Publisher: Ballantine Books, June 1999
Hired in a secret meeting to write the story of a powerful man he is forbidden to meet, Carl Granville soon finds himself embroiled in an astonishing conspiracy that threatens to destroy him and those around him
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Gideon. An identity shrouded in mystery - the anonymous source who holds the key to an explosive secret. In a clandestine meeting, writer Carl Granville is hired to take the pages of an old diary, articles, letters - documents in which all proper names and locations have been blacked out - and turn them into compelling fiction. He will be paid a quarter of a million dollars. But he can never tell a soul.As he is fed information and his work progresses, Granville begins to realize that Gideon's book is more than just a potential bestseller. It is a revelation of chilling evil and a decades-long cover-up by someone with far-reaching power. He starts to have second thoughts.Then someone close to Granville is bludgeoned to death. Another is savagely murdered. His apartment is ransacked, his computer destroyed, all his records stolen. Suspicion falls on Granville. He tries to explain the shadowy assignment. No one believes him.Framed for two murders he didn't commit, Granville is a man on the run. He knows too much - but not enough to save himself.Granville's only hope, penetrate the enigma of the name that began his nightmare - unearth the real identity of ... Gideon.
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