- Honour Among Thieves
Infobox Book
name = Honour Among Thieves
image_caption =
author =Jeffrey Archer
language = English
genre =Fiction
publisher =HarperCollins
release_date = July, 4 1993
media_type =Novel
isbn = 9780330419031
preceded_by =As The Crow Flies
followed_by =Twelve Red Herrings "Honour Among Thieves" is a novel by
Jeffrey Archer . The book takes place in1993 withSaddam Hussein planning to retaliate at theUnited States after the events of theGulf War .When the
United States defeats Iraq in the1991 Gulf War ,Saddam Hussein plans to humiliate the victors by stealing theAmerican Declaration of Independence and publicly burning it on the 4th of July in full view of world media and the public. To achieve this, his Deputy Ambassador to theUnited Nations enlists the help of Antonio Cavalli, a lawyer and one of the leading figures of theNew York mafia for a sum of $100,000,000.An Israeli, Hannah Kopec, a young ex-model
Mossad agent with a personalvendetta against Saddam Hussein is involved in a plot to assassinate him. In the United States, the government finds that the Declaration of Independence has been swapped with a forgery. Scott Bradley, aYale University Law professor, who has been working undercover tracking Kopec throughParis , is assigned by theCIA to work with her to recover the document before the 4th of July.External links
* [http://www.jeffreyarcher.co.uk Jeffrey Archer's official website]
References
* Archer, J. (1993). "Honour Among Thieves". HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-330-41903-1
* Factsheet. Official Site for Jeffrey Archer. Retrieved November 24, 2006 from [http://www.jeffreyarcher.co.uk/about-factsheet.htm]
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