The Venerable Bead

by Richard Condon

Book Overview

As the story begins...It is the early 1970s, when every American man, woman, and child is fighting the threat of Communist invasion. Leila Aluja, an Iraqi-American lawyer, becomes a film star as part of her job with the government's top counter-espionage unit, in an effort to track down a ring of Sino-Albanian spies operating out of Hollywood's most powerful talent agency. Leila accomplishes her mission, but not before she falls in love with Albanian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312312776
• ISBN13: 9780312312770
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"