{"product_id":"supernotes-a-thriller-9780385540070","title":"Supernotes: A Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the Cambodian hinterlands  a lone Western prisoner suffers through a hot  muddy  interminable sentence. Wasted by repeated torture  lack of sleep  malnutrition  and psychotropic drugs  he has been abandoned. His years of exemplary service to his government mean nothing. No one is coming for him.  This is Agent Kasper  a man with a staggering rsum: commercial airline pilot  firearms expert  highly accomplished practitioner of several of the martial arts  a secret agent par excellence. It is this incredible competence that will be his undoing. While investigating Mafia money laundering in Phnom Penh  Kasper is approached by the CIA to track down the source of the so-called supernotesillegal U.S. banknotes counterfeited so perfectly that they are undetectable  even by sophisticated machinesthat are flooding Southeast Asia. With patience  skill  and courage  Kasper uncovers the explosive secret behind them and is badly burned by the truth.  Meanwhile  back in Rome  a sharp  scrappy lawyer named Barbara Belli has been hired by Kaspers family to work for his release. She has contacts in the foreign ministry  and while officials make sweeping claims about moving heaven and earth  nothing happens. Its more than just creaking bureaucracy. Kasper has really pissed off the wrong people.  Based on true events in the life of a former spy  Kaspers journey makes for a shocking and spellbinding page-turner of petty corruption  high-level betrayal  and state secrets so powerful that governments will protect them by any means.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67600415522869,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385540078","price":32.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385540070.jpg?v=1790970172","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/supernotes-a-thriller-9780385540070","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}