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The Rare Earth Exchange
The Rare Earth Exchange, Bernard Besson, Le French Book, $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-939474-62-9
AN AIRBUS landing at Orly, a fire breaks out, and suddenly a terrorist attack is claiming many lives as hundreds of thousands watch, horrified, on TV.Freelance intelligence agents John, Victoire and Luc are called in by counter-intelligence but not to help with the Orly massacre… the former president has been found hanged in his Paris flat and something is not right.We already know something has gone badly wrong as the ex-president had faked being on the destroyed Airbus and now someone has rigged his death.There is corruption at high levels, driven by the multi-millions to be made in trading rare resources for the high-tech industry – John, Victoire and Luc must get to the bottom of it.