01727nam a2200277u  4500001001100000003000700011005001700018007000300035008004100038010001500079020003800094020002800132035001300160040003200173043002100205100001700226245006200243260003900305300002100344520090500365651005301270651005101323655002501374655003101399700001901430246894642 OCoLC 20190501164307.0ta090723s2009    nyu           000 1 eng    a2008040420  a9781593155087 (alk. paper)c25.95  a1593155085 (alk. paper)  a17239874  aDLCcDLCdBTCTAdYDXCPdJRG  aaw-----an-us---1 aLowry, Rich.10aBanquo's ghosts :b[a novel] cRich Lowry & Keith Korman.  aNew York :bVanguard Press,c2009.  a344 p. ;c25 cm.  aSpymaster Stewart Banquo recruits Peter Johnson, a dissolute liberal news journalist, to travel to Iran. Johnson poses as a sympathetic reporter writing a piece on the countrys nuclear facilities, while attempting to kill the scientist who is developing nuclear weapons there. The assassination attempt fails and he falls into Iranian hands. He is tortured to confess, creating a security crisis for the U.S. Johnson escapes, aided by CIA operatives who trained him. Now back in the United States, Johnson helps Banquo and his CIA cohorts lead a team of federal agents and New York City officials in tracking down a group of suspected Iranian terrorists in New York who are planning to disperse a highly radioactive material throughout the city streets and subways. When Johnsons only daughter is kidnapped by the Iranians, he and Banquo must race against time to save her...and the City of New York. 0aUnited StatesxPolitics and governmentvFiction. 0aMiddle EastxPolitics and governmentvfiction. 7aSpy stories.2gsafd. 7aPolitical fiction.2gsafd.1 aKorman, Keith.