Honour Among Thieves
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| Honour Among Thieves | |
| Author | Jeffrey Archer |
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| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Fiction |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
| Publication 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 in 1993 with Saddam Hussein planning to retaliate at the United States after the events of the Gulf War.
When the United States defeats Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam Hussein plans to humiliate the victors by stealing the American 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 the United Nations enlists the help of Antonio Cavalli, a lawyer and one of the leading figures of the New York mafia for a sum of $100,000,000.
An Israeli, Hannah Kopec, a young ex-model Mossad agent with a personal vendetta 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, a Yale University Law professor, who has been working undercover tracking Kopec through Paris, is assigned by the CIA to work with her to recover the document before the 4th of July.
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- Archer, J. (1993). Honour Among Thieves. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-330-41903-1
- Factsheet. Official Site for Jeffrey Archer. Retrieved November 24, 2006 from [1]
