The Second Saladin, Stephen Hunter
The Second Saladin, Stephen Hunter
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The Second Saladin

Author: Stephen Hunter

Narrator: Dick Hill

Unabridged: 15 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/06/2010

Synopsis

A second chance…In the windswept sands of the Middle East, Paul Chardy fought side by side with Ulu Beg: one, a charismatic, high-strung CIA covert warrior, the other a ferocious freedom fighter. Then Chardy fell into the hands of the enemy, and Beg was betrayed. Now the two men are about to meet again.A second gun.…Beg has come over the Mexican border under a hail of bullets—determined to assassinate a leading American political figure and avenge his people's betrayal. The CIA wants Chardy to stop the hit. Chardy wants to save Beg's life.Between the two men is a tragic past, a failed mission, and a woman who knew them in war—and who knows their secrets now. Around both men is a conspiracy of lies and violence that reaches back to the Cold War. But as Beg moves in for his kill and as Chardy breaks loose from his handlers, a terrible truth begins to emerge: somewhere, someone wants both men to die.

About Stephen Hunter

Stephen Hunter has written fifteen novels. The retired chief film critic for The Washington Post, where he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, he has also published two collections of film criticism and a nonfiction work. He lives in Maryland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Adam on June 09, 2011

Ulu Beg, a Kurdish freedom fighter betrayed by the CIA, sneaks over the Mexico/U.S. border with a Russian-made Skorpion machine pistol. He intends to kill former Secretary of State Joseph Danzig, the most thinly veiled version of Henry Kissinger I've seen in a novel. As soon as the CIA gets wind of U......more

Goodreads review by Ren on June 08, 2017

Meh.... not his best , clearly his earlier stuff isn't as good as the later books. This one was a little messy and didn't flow very well and times. 3 ish stars.......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn on March 08, 2021

Not bad, but not as good as others I've read.......more

Goodreads review by itchy on April 21, 2025

eponymous sentence: p48: But Saladin II and Danzig are linked, Trewitt realized, just as tightly in their way as Saladin II and Chardy. ocr: p60: "Did you know"--Miles spoke from the comer--"that in the years she's been back she's tried to kill herself three times?" p62: "So we wonder, Paul," Yost conti......more

Goodreads review by Peter on January 12, 2014

Stephen Hunter has had two writing lives. Before the early 1990s he wrote generic thrillers about espionage, terrorism, and other facets of the standard fare. In the 1990s he shifted to a style all his own: an extensive documentation of the lives and adventures of the Swagger Family: Earl Swagger, a......more

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