THE CARTER CONSPIRACY

In 1980, President Carter\'s chances of re-election were destroyed bythe failure of the mission to rescue the hostages held in Iran. In the aftermath, the Iranians claimed to have discovered nine US bodies atthe desert location where the mission disintegrated into chaos andtragedy, while the US authorities stated that only eight men weremissing. Years later, an English monk - once an intelligence officerin Northern Ireland, whose life was torn apart by a disastrousundercover operation that led to his parents\' murder - receives a UStycoon\'s deathbed confession that he was part of a sinister andsuccessful conspiracy to sabotage the rescue. Dom Clement is draggedback into the world of threats and violence that he hoped to have left behind , with the original conspirators bent on keeping the plot andits murderous legacy buried by any means necessary. Who organised thegreatest political coup of the 20th century, and what is the identityof that ninth man found dead in the Iranian desert? The CarterConspiracy weaves a web of ingenious and utterly believable fictionaround true historical facts