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Author:

McDonell, Nick.

Title:

An expensive education : a novel / by Nick McDonell.

Publisher:

Grove Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

294 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Harvard University--Fiction.
Women college teachers--Cambridge--Cambridge--Fiction.
Somalis--Cambridge--Cambridge--Fiction.
College students--Cambridge--Cambridge--Fiction.
Intelligence officers--United States--Fiction.
Americans--Somalia--Fiction.
Revolutionaries--Somalia--Fiction.

Summary:

"Mike Teak has a classic Harvard profile. But only on the surface. He's a twenty-five-year-old scholar/athlete from an upper-class family who was recruited by his godfather to work for a U.S. intelligence agency. On a covert mission in a Somali village, he delivers cash and cell phones to Hatashil, a legendary orphan warrior turned rebel leader. It's a routine assignment until, minutes after they meet, the village is decimated by a missile attack, and although Mike escapes, his life is changed forever"--P. [4] of cover.

ISBN:

0802144810
9780802144812

OCLC:

(OCoLC)456177372

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)